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Cell Phone Cameras Offer Powerful Insight to Police Misconduct

July 23, 2011 By Eric Reagan

This video is an interesting look into how modern technology, specifically cell phones, has given average citizens a powerful tool to combat police misconduct.  The examples shown in this video demonstrate why the right to photograph or record video in public is so important.

[via PetaPixel]

Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: 1st amendment, first amendment, freedom, Photographers, rights

 

Atlanta Police Delete Photos from Camera, City Settles $40K

February 16, 2011 By Eric Reagan

As seen in the above video, Marlon Kautz, an Atlanta man attempting to document police activity, had his cameraphone seized after he refused to stop filming them in a public place. Those police officers then deleted the photos/video of the police activity.

In addition to the $40,000 in damages the City is paying to Kautz to avoid a civil rights lawsuit, the Atlanta Police Department is adopting new operating procedures that prohibit police from interfering with citizens who are recording police activity.

It’s nice to see official police procedures catching up with the First Amendment, eh?

[via PetaPixel and AJC]

Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: 1st amendment, first amendment, free speech, freedom of the press, Photographers, photography, police, rights

Freelance Photographer for ProPublica & PBS Detained for Photographing BP Refineries

July 5, 2010 By Eric Reagan

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Freelance photographer, Lance Rosenfield, was confronted and detained by BP security, police officers and a DHS agent in Texas City, Texas as he was working on an assignment for ProPublica/PBS concerning a deadly accident caused by BP’s safety violations in 2005.

According to the report from ProPublica, Rosenfield was told that he would be “taken in” if he did not allow the police to review his photos.  Based on the report, when he complied, the police also allowed private representatives of BP to view the images as well. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Photographers Tagged With: 1st amendment, 4th amendment, bp, bp cares, dhs, lance rosenfield, pbs, photography, police, propublica, texas, texas city

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