(NEXSTAR) – Halloween-loving homeowners have been known to show little restraint when decorating for the holiday, putting up taller and taller skeletons each year, or finding new and creative ways to scatter fake entrails and viscera across their lawns. But can Halloween decorations ever go too far, in terms of breaking the law?

Yes, they can. Although it's not usually because of their content.

“Most decorations would be covered by the First Amendment,” Officer Christian Bruckhart of the New Haven Police Department in Connecticut told Nexstar.

Bruckhart went on to say there are indeed exceptions to the content a homeowner can display, just as there are exceptions to the First Amendment. Those might include decorations that include “explicit threats of violence” or “defamation of an indi

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