L.A. Pays $50k to Harassed Photogs, Agrees to Train Sheriff’s Deputies

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L.A. Pays $50k to Harassed Photogs, Agrees to Train Sheriff’s Deputies | PDNPulse

Los Angeles County has agreed to pay a $50,000 settlement to photographers and instruct sheriff’s deputies to respect First Amendment rights.

via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2015/03/l-pays-50k-harassed-photogs-agrees-train-sheriff-deputies.html

The settlement stems from a lawsuit the ACLU filed on behalf of the photographers in 2011. The suit alleged that L.A. County Sheriff’s Department deputies violated the photographers’ First and Fourth Amendment rights “by detaining, searching and questioning them for nothing more than taking photographs of Metro Rail turnstiles, oil refineries and traffic whizzing by a court house.”