Citing First Amendment issues, a federal appeals court is barring Illinois from enforcing a law prohibiting the audio-recording of police officers. The decision Tuesday by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes two weeks ahead of a NATO summit in Chi
“The Illinois eavesdropping statute restricts far more speech than necessary to protect legitimate privacy interests,” the Chicago-based appeals court wrote
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit today granted a preliminary injunction, blocking enforcement of the Illinois Eavesdropping statute as it applies to audio recording of police performing “their duties in public places and engaging
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit today granted a preliminary injunction, blocking enforcement of the Illinois Eavesdropping statute as it applies to audio recording of police performing “their duties in public places and engaging in public communications audible to persons who witness the events.”
From the Anarchist News “Photographers were continually confronted throughout the demo. These vultures not only put people at very…
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it must be made unequivocally clear: journalists are f*cking enemies.”
“………………….To our enemies: if we won’t hesitate to directly confront hundreds of cops and to destroy property, what makes you think we hold the lens of your camera to be sacred? You want to preserve your four thousand dollar camera to watch us break everything else? We are not doing this for you, and this is not a game. You clearly do not understand that there is no exception. We feel nothing but contempt for you cowardly spectators.
You’d better watch your necks next time
Days after the murder of a magazine reporter, the bodies of three photojournalists were found dismembered Thursday in the eastern state of Veracruz.
The bodies of the three photojournalists were discovered on World Press Freedom Day and less than a week after Mexico’s Congress approved a law granting protection to journalists who have received threats.
“I had a couple people make grabs for my gear,” Muncy told Buzzfeed. “They just didn’t want their pictures taken.” “One girl walks up to one of the photogs and nailed him right in the face,” Muncy said. “He popped her right back.” Muncy told Buzzfeed the photographer was Lucas Jackson of Reuters.
Photographer Carlos Miller, owner of the Photography Is Not a Crime blog, has learned that the Miami-Dade Police Department is watching him like, well, police states watch dissidents, just looking for reasons to arrest him. Miller, who has been a tireless
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/05/police-intimidation-watch-miami-dade-police-monitoring-activist-photographer.html
Photographer Carlos Miller, owner of the Photography Is Not a Crime blog, has learned that the Miami-Dade Police Department is watching him like, well, police states watch dissidents, just looking for reasons to arrest him.
Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time
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There are several resources available for photographers who encounter trouble with the law. Here are just a few
“The Connecticut state senate approved a bill Thursday that would allow citizens to sue police officers who arrest them for recording in public, apparently the first of its kind in the nation…
When we made the decision to publish, the Pentagon asked us to wait 24 additional hours to protect troops depicted in the photographs. We agreed to push back our publication date until the Pentagon told us they had taken the necessary precautions. In fact, we waited more than 72 hours after their request.
The guards refused to let Walker leave immediately. The incident, he writes, ended after the security guards “called police, who also asked to see the video footage, citing the Terrorism Act. The reporter was allowed to leave after neither he nor the police could properly operate the camera to replay the footage.”
An article published yesterday by Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald details the Department of Homeland Security’s repeated questioning and harassment of an American filmmaker when she has attempted to reenter the country after traveling overseas. According to G
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/04/does-homeland-security-target-journalists-for-search-and-seizure.html
Agents often wait for documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras at the door as she disembarks from international flights. Poitras, a US citizen, has been interrogated for hours, had her personal belongings and reporter’s notebooks seized, held and copied, and her laptop, phone and other devices searched and copied
If there is anything that is shocking to me about the subject at this point, it’s that the visual censorship of these wars has been so absolute that many today fail to understand why such scenes would be even be relevant to see.
If there is anything that is shocking to me about the subject at this point, it’s that the visual censorship of these wars has been so absolute that many today actually fail to understand why such scenes would even be important or relevant to see.
No lights, no tripod and no mucking about. That’s how we continued our coverage of the growing Tibetan unrest in Western China.
A freelance photographer arrested last fall while covering police action at the Occupy protest in Richmond, Virginia has reportedly agreed to complete 50 hours of community service in exchange for having prosecutors drop trespassing charges against him. P
The Boston Globe is reporting that the City of Boston has paid $170,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed against them after they arrested a man for photographing police activity on the Boston Commons. The underlying case was the subject of an earlie
via NPPA Advocacy Committee: http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2012/03/27/boston-paying-170k-for-recording-arrest/
An attorney who believed that the officers might be using excessive force, Simon Glik began recording with his cell phone. Police arrested Glik and charged him with, among other things, violations of the wiretap statute
The payment would settle the federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Mitchell Crooks, whose video of the confrontation with officer Derek Colling became an Internet hit.
Although this image of a Greek police officer punching a news photographer at an Athens street protest was shot last fall, it didn’t come to our attention until yesterday. But the passage of several months makes it no less dramatic or shocking. And it rem
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/03/a-sign-of-restive-times-policeman-punches-photojournalist.html
Although this image of a Greek police officer punching a news photographer at an Athens street protest was shot last fall, it didn’t come to our attention until yesterday
Israel has passed a law that bans the use of “underweight” models in advertising, and mandates that ads that are retouched to make models appear thinner must include a disclaimer. According to reports, a fashion photographer and model agent named Adi Bark
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“Force actual tests. Make girls go to a doctor. Get a system to follow girls who are found to be puking,”
Link: British Journal of Photography
Tahmineh Monzavi, an Iranian photographer and director, has been arrested in her native country