City and county leaders must be very careful with respect to how they instruct their governments’ personnel to respond to accidents and crimes. When it comes to crime scenes or accident scenes, they need to be familiar with their state law regarding liability for failure to clean up such sites so there is no physical hazards remaining that could harm the public.

In some states counties could be held liable for negligent cleanup of an accident or crime site. In some both counties and cities could be held liable and in others only cities could be held liable. The pertinent inquiry involves the question of whether the state has a constitutional provision which immunizes cities and/or counties from such liability. There is also a question as to whether the immunity is absolute or qualified. Another way of looking at it is whether the immunity is total or partial.

From a public health standpoint it is always best to bring in a professional crime scene cleaning company, accident scene cleaning company, homicide scene cleaning company, suicide scene cleaning company, odor removing company or meth lab scene cleaning company. From a legal standpoint, the question revolves around the issues of available immunity and the nature of that immunity for particular jurisdictions. If the immunity that is available to a county or city is not absolute, the city or county should bring in such accident scene cleaner companies, death scene cleaner companies, homicide scene cleaner companies, crime scene cleaner companies, suicide scene cleaner companies, blood scene cleaner companies, odor cleaner companies or bio hazard cleaner companies when the occasion arises for their services.

This information was originally published as part of the Crime Scene Cleanup blog at http://www.advancedbio-treatment.com/blog.

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