Negligent Security · Assault · Unsafe Premises
Businesses and property owners may be held responsible when inadequate security exposes visitors, tenants, customers, or employees to foreseeable violence. Golde Law Firm represents people harmed by assaults and other violent incidents connected to negligent security or unsafe premises.
A negligent security claim is not a case against the attacker alone. It asks a separate question: was this violence foreseeable, and did the property owner take reasonable steps to prevent it? Prior incidents at the same location, calls for service in the surrounding area, and complaints tenants already made about broken locks or dark parking structures are all part of that answer.
The evidence tends to sit with the property. Security-camera footage, guard-post logs, staffing schedules, key-card and gate-access records, work orders for broken lighting, and prior tenant complaints are usually in the owner’s hands and are not preserved indefinitely. Requesting them early is often the difference between a provable claim and a plausible one.
These matters are handled with discretion. Cases involving assault — including sexual assault arising from negligent security — are difficult to talk about, and the firm approaches them at whatever pace a client is able to manage.
Treatment records document injuries that are otherwise hard to establish later, including injuries that are not immediately visible.
Prior complaints to a landlord, maintenance requests about a broken gate or light, texts, and photographs can all become evidence.
Camera systems commonly overwrite within days or weeks. A written preservation request should go out as early as possible.
A civil claim is separate from any criminal case, proceeds on its own timeline, and does not depend on whether anyone is criminally charged or convicted. Nothing on this page is legal advice about your situation.