using googl earth, he found 250 unpermitted pools and was able to clect $75,000 in fines, all from homeowners never filled out the proper paperwork. >> an effort to make backyard pools fer on long isla is drawing criticism this morning. >> this is like a 1984 nightmare. >> while this use has gotten most attention, it has been used elsewhere. in florida police looked for the owner of an illegally dumped boat by searching nearby serenas with google earth. here they found a suspected marijuana field. >> google ha become the eye in the sky. it's very useful for us when we're looking down at the earth and maybe getting directions or trying to imagine what a far off place looks like. >> but what has privacy advocates worrieds the idea of the government, big brother, using the tool to lo into your backyard. >> wen private companies collect this infortion, when they reuse it or sell it, for example, i think you run into a different set of issues. there the law is not so clear. >> the supreme court has ruled that aerial photographer of your backya is legal. there's no expectation of privacy in areas v

some of the buildings had only things that were unpermitted work which they will have to file permits for. but to my knowledge i don't recall that. chair maxwell: are there any buildings that have been brought into compliance yet? >> not yet. they have taken out compliance on some of the early buildings we have inspected. we inspected the four that we had inspected. they are quite involved, actually. thank you. chair maxwell: thank you. >> when we met earlier, you had mentioned that mentioned all the buildings had something wrong, but there were buildings with troubling code problems, and one in particular was 1800 vanness. could you talk about the buildings with the worst problems that astill have some work to do? >> well, 1849 vanness is the first building we inspected. that particular building is the home of the school of the industrial design. ds -- >> the particular building has use issues because it needs -- besides the fact that we need the e.i.r. and i.n.p. supreme courts have to have a permit as well, the building permit. of course that goes without saying. we have had concer