[panic]

Are fire codes really enforced in this way? Obviously the closet wasn't built to sleep in. It's one thing to force building owners and landlords to build and maintain rooms a certain way, but using a law to force people not to sleep in a closet seems counterproductive.

[ars]

Oh definitely. Especially for rentals.

To be a bedroom it has to have a window, a certain size (which varies), and some places even require a closet in the room.

If they find a bed in a room like that they normally start with a warning, then a visit from child protection services, or even condemning the entire house.

Obviously if they don't inspect they'll never know, but rentals, and people with contact with authority (CPS, Police, etc) could expect an inspection.

If you own, I'm not sure if the fire department can legally enter a home for an inspection without a warrant, but for a rental I believe they can, and do!

[guard-of-terra]

I always wonder why child "protection" services feel the need to harrass middle class families running a little low, when they could go to ghetto and have an unlimited supply of totally ruined families to have fun with. Multi-generation alchohol and drug abuse and all that stuff available in numbers.

Stop harrassing us until you solved them. Bye.

[01Michael10]

What nonsense did I just read? Child protection services are mostly operating in the "ghetto". They go where the complaints are...

Are you really saying people with some money should be able to bend the law but not poor people?

[dottedmag]

Ghetto folks can fight back. Middle class will not.