Kamran Farid, owner of the home on the right, is taking the owners of the home on the left (Bob and Michelle DiLieto) to court, alleging the couple’s fence is encroaching on his property. The common property dispute has a twist — the DiLietos are accusing Farid of illegal surveillance, arguing that the camera (mounted to the right of the door) constitutes an invasion of privacy.

It’s a neighbor-vs.-neighbor battle for two Pine Orchard homeowners, and at the heart of the squabble is whether one neighbor’s outdoor cameras constitute an invasion of another family’s privacy.

“It’s pointed right into our kitchen,” Michelle DiLieto said about her neighbor’s camera. Michelle and Bob DiLieto, who settled into their Blackstone Avenue oceanfront home a little more than a year ago, claim their next-door neighbor Kamran Farid installed a surveillance camera on the side of his house specifically to watch and intimidate them.

“It’s against the law,” she said. “Am I not right?”

The DiLieto’s Pine Orchard neighborhood consists of a cluster of homes overlooking Long Island Sound. The distance between Farid’s home and the DiLietos’ is the equivalent of an alleyway. Bob DiLieto said he replaced a pre-existing fence dividing the two properties in 2012. Farid’s camera, an eye-in-the-sky version akin to a camera commonly spotted inside casinos, is mounted directly above his home’s side entryway — the side facing the DiLietos’ house.
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