Yep. Once you set it curbside, anyone, including the police, can take your trash and use it for whatever purporses. When I was dispatching for a little city PD, the vice unit from the sheriff's department used to come into the lobby in the middle of the night with tarps and rakes to go through trash they'd collected from suspects. The ladies in records could always "tell" when they came in the next morning with wrinkled noses.

