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I'm a lawyer. If they are in their house, they are not in a public place. A house has a reasonable expectation of privacy.

If anyone at my house were arrested for this, I would file civil rights claims against the police and I would litigate it to the bitter end.

If you were the neighbor who called the police about it, and you did it more than once, I would get a restraining order against you.

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And you would lose on both efforts because exposing yourself in view of the public is a crime, the police can arrest you for crimes, and your neighbors can complain about crimes.

You do have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your property, so you cannot be accused of public indecency by a visitor within your home (e.g., the police cannot come into your home and arrest you for indecency for what they see).   But, if you do a lewd act that can be seen from a public place (sidewalk), like while standing in your front yard or in an open door or window, then you are committing a crime (you have given up your privacy rights to intentionally expose yourself to the public).  And there are a lot of people sitting jail for public indecency committed on their property.

The original scenario (neighbors can see into a home from an adjacent home) is not clear cut because the exposure is visible in another private residence and not to the public.  However, judges are not very kind to people who do things in view of kids.  So, yes the nudist neighbors  could get off, but there is sufficient basis to get arrested and even get past a grand jury, so the neighbors are putting themselves in a very risky situation that could cost them a lot of time and expense that could be easily avoided (paper blinds cost a couple of dollars at Home Depot).  [/quote]

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