http://www.photopermit.org Photography is Not a Crime Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:38:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks Jeff for the PDF link to the finalized official rules for filming and photographing in New York City. As pointed out in the forum, the city FAQ PDF is somewhat conciliatory in tone, but it does contain language that apparently makes it illegal for a photographer to set down ... http://www.photopermit.org/?p=260 “Here’s a guy who takes me out of the car and arrests me in front of my kids. For what? To take a picture of a police officer?” said Scott Conover. This WJHL story asks the same question, reporting that Conover was arrested for snapping a cel phone picture ... http://www.photopermit.org/?p=259 The British Journal of Photography has recently been covering the (paper) conflict between police and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). On May 22nd, the NUJ’s general secretary protested to the Home Secretary, stating that police have begun systematically placing journalists under surveillance and building a catalogue of journalists and ... http://www.photopermit.org/?p=258 Thanks ncp5 for this 4th of July story (with video) from Oklahoma’s News On 6, about teacher & professional photographer Chris Owens being harrassed by city cops and Oklahoma state troopers when they noticed him photographing the end of a high-speed chase and multi-car accident that had terminated in his ... http://www.photopermit.org/?p=257 PhotoPermit reader “Dracil” tells us in this forum thread that SF Muni’s securty crews are up to the same behaviors that brought citizen action against them back in the early days of PhotoPermit, over similar incidents that eventually resulted in formal apologies from SF Muni police that went as far ... http://www.photopermit.org/?p=256 Also picked up by the BBC. http://www.photopermit.org/?p=255 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has reported on a new SPD policy that makes it clear that onlookers to police incidents have the right to gawk, shout, and photograph– as long as they don’t “interfere” with officers. According to the P-I blog, the new policy says that officers can take action against bystanders ... http://www.photopermit.org/?p=254 Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has decided to venture into the video game industry, she announced at the recent “Games for Change” conference: “If someone told me when I retired from court that I’d be talking at a conference about digital gaming, I’d think they’d had one drink ... http://www.photopermit.org/?p=253 That’s the title of today’s Guardian story by Bruce Schneier, who also writes on Security for Wired. As Schneier points points out: …The 9/11 terrorists didn’t photograph anything. Nor did the London transport bombers, the Madrid subway bombers, or the liquid bombers arrested in 2006. Timothy McVeigh didn’t photograph the Oklahoma ... http://www.photopermit.org/?p=252 Thanks Mac for this somewhat comical story (that is, if it weren’t thuggish and creepy) of McGill University security guards in Montréal, who wanted to stop him making photographs of the campus from the side facing busy Sherbrooke Ave: The guards radioed their superiors, and soon someone else came out from ... http://www.photopermit.org/?p=251