Photography is not a crime

By Carlos Miller
Just over a mile from where the U.S. Constitution is permanently displayed in Washington DC, photographers have been routinely harassed and threatened with arrest for daring to snap a photo inside one of the most historical and picturesque train stations in the United States.
The situation got so bad that even a TV […]

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By Carlos Miller
This is a bit belated but it’s been a busy week and I was hoping to incorporate this information in a longer post about what I’ve accomplished on this blog so far, but I’ve really haven’t accomplished anything yet except maybe stir the pot a little and hopefully raise a little awareness, so […]

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By Carlos Miller
I wrote an article about photographers getting harassed by cops which will be published in Thursday’s edition of the Miami New Times.
The article, titled “Cops Target Photographers”, has already been uploaded to the New Times Website. Check it out here.
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By Carlos Miller
An Oklahoma photographer was thrown in the back of a police car last week and threatened with arrest if he did not delete the images he took of a crime scene.
Chris Owens, who was able to retrieve the photos using recovery software, is now considering a lawsuit.
The incident began last Monday in Oklahoma […]

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By Carlos Miller
If you think it’s getting bad for photographers in the United States, just be bloody glad our forefathers broke allegiance from the King of England centuries ago.
After all, United Kingdom Home Secretary Jacqui Smith recently declared that local Chief Constables (police chiefs) have the right to restrict or set their own standards for […]

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By Carlos Miller
Some people think that journalists have more rights than civilian non-journalists when it comes to accessing police scenes.
That is not true, of course, as journalists and civilians both have the same legal right to document police investigations in public as long as they don’t interfere.
However, Orlando police seem to believe that journalists have […]

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By Carlos Miller
Albuquerque police officer Daniel Guzman “overstepped his boundaries” when arresting KOB videographer Rick Foley in May, stated KOB-TV in paraphrasing the judge.
Therefore, Judge Benjamin Chavez had no choice but to drop all charges against Foley.
Foley, a veteran videographer, was charged with disobeying a police officer after an arrest that was caught on video […]

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A must-watch video, even if all you do is watch the first minute of it.
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By Carlos Miller
It’s not too often that a South Florida blog gets mentioned in the New York Times blog, which is maintained by the paper’s metro reporters.
But it’s not too often that a South Florida blog writes about an upcoming New York event either
Monday morning, a few hours after I had posted the article about […]

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By Carlos Miller
In the latest saga between photographers and New York City police officers, a commercial photographer was intimidated into giving up his film after an irate mother complained to police that he had photographed her child in Coney Island.
Yes, Coney Island, one of the most public places in the United States. There is no […]

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