Forest Service says media needs photography permit in wilderness areas, alarming First Amendment advocates | OregonLive.com

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Forest Service says media needs photography permit in wilderness areas, alarming First Amendment advocates

First Amendment advocates say the rules ignore press freedoms and are unconstitutional.

via oregonlive: http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2014/09/forest_service_says_media_need.html#incart_river

“It’s pretty clearly unconstitutional,” said Gregg Leslie, legal defense director at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Alexandria, Va. “They would have to show an important need to justify these limits, and they just can’t.”