Link: Criminalizing Photography

RyanS

Sharing a link. You may have already seen it:

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/criminalizing-photography/

What we’re seeing is photographers being charged with disorderly conduct, trespass and obstruction of governmental administration for doing their job. I call it the catch and release program. Almost always the D.A. will drop the charges immediately. But in the meantime, the police have managed to stop the person from photographing.

I've seen that happen. It creates a big problem for the photographer with lost work time and potentially thousands of dollars in legal expenses. For the DA/Police it is essentially free. They can do it all day long.