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Photographers Rights Watch: Miami PD Confirmed to be Monitoring Photojournalist Prior to Wrongful Arrest

O2 Management Admit to the Unlawful Violation of a Photographer’s Right to Work on the 2012 Olympic Grounds

Setting a Precedent? Connecticut Senate Bill 245 Passed – Protects Citizens’ Right to Record and Photograph Police While on the Job

Police Department Apologizes to Photographer in London For Rights Violation

2012 Summer Olympics Venue Management Set to Unlawfully Impede Photographers’ Rights

Video: News Journalist Files Lawsuit Against Suffolk County PD After Unlawful Arrest

College Student Arrested for Capturing Images of a Routine Police Traffic Stop

Boston Admits Their Wrongdoing in Arresting Attorney, Bystander, & Cell Phone Recorder Simon Glik – $170,000 in Damages Paid

A Pennsylvania Photographer’s Run In With the Law Caught on Video

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Manuel A. Calle in Photographers Rights

Back in February, we covered a story regarding American freelance photographer and Pixiq.com column contributor, Carlos Miller’s ongoing wrongful arrest battle and subsequent First Amendment right’s violation by the hands of the Miami-Dade County Police Department during the Occupy protests.

Miller’s fiasco, which has been covered in full detail HERE, stems from the altercation captured in the raw arrest video below, footage that was later confiscated by the Miami-Dade PD, but eventually recovered by Miller and published publicly.

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Manuel A. Calle in Photographers Rights

Just last week, we covered a story concerning the 2012 Olympic venue O2 over in London that recently made headlines over the management’s controversial stance of impeding photographers’ rights if need be.

When a journalist from The Guardian tested the waters with O2’s management pertaining to their stringent photography policies and regulations to see what would happen, security officers immediately approached him (shown in the video above), demanded him to stop filming, and show the footage, even though the reporter was filming on a public street and there exists no law that calls for security guards to view footage. When the journalist denied to show O2′s security footage of what he had recorded on the grounds of the law, one of the men responded that anti-terror laws permit it.

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Manuel A. Calle in Photographers Rights, Photography, Through the Viewfinder

At a time when citizens all over the United States are constantly being punished and arrested for exercising their constitutional right to free press comes the passage of a fundamental law in Connecticut that provides citizens, especially photographers and filmmakers, the opportunity to carry out legal actions against police officers who arrest them for recording in public. Senate Bill 245, which was introduced by Democratic State Senator of Connecticut Eric Coleman, was approved and now must go before the House, and is planned to go into effect on October 1st of this year.

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Manuel A. Calle in Photographers Rights, Through the Viewfinder

With all of the recent and persistent headlines concerning the violation of photographers’ rights all over the world comes another story of an infringed photographer’s rights out in London.

After capturing some photographs of a police car and a police van collision, a local photographer was confronted by police officers and told to quit taking pictures and leave the scene immediately. When approached, the man was on a public street, bringing to the light the fact that he was not interfering with police operations and in the legal realm of the law.

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Manuel A. Calle in Editorials, Photographers Rights

With all of the recent problems that photojournalists and news reporters have had to endure from police officers and other influential figures in the United States comes disconcerting news, and raw footage (above), of our fellow creatives across the pond in London, England suffering from the same issues – only this time from security guards.

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Manuel A. Calle in Photographers Rights, Through the Viewfinder

Last July, professional video journalist Philip Datz was standing on a public street in Long Island, New York with some fellow bystanders watching the aftermath of a police chase. When Sergeant Michael Milton of the Suffolk County Police Department caught sight of Datz recording the ordeal, he wasted no time in rushing over to the news videographer and nastily demanded him to stop recording and leave the scene immediately.

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Manuel A. Calle in Editorials, Photographers Rights

Imagine being right outside of your house, getting an assignment done for school by taking some photos one minute and then being arrested the next minute. What would you do?

Ian Van Kuyk, a photojournalist student from Temple University in Philadelphia, experienced just that the other day. The aspiring photographer was minding his own business on the front stairs of his house when he witnessed a police officer pull over a passing driver. Having been assigned some photography homework to do with his camera, on temporary loan from Temple, Van Kuyk decided that it was the perfect moment to get some work done.

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Manuel A. Calle in Editorials, Photographers Rights, Through the Viewfinder

It seems as though we are slowly making concrete and optimistic progress concerning recorded altercations with police officers on cell phones, thanks to Simon Glik & the city of Boston, Massachusetts.

In the beginning of January, we covered a story concerning the bogus arrest of attorney Simon Glik. The article, which can be viewed HERE, focused on Glik’s unlawful arrest for whipping out his cell phone to record a police officer roughly handling and arresting another man. At the officer’s recognizance of the bystander’s recording, he was arrested, taken into custody, and slammed with the heavy, felonious charge of “illegal wiretap.”

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Manuel A. Calle in Photographers Rights, Through the Viewfinder

The other night, Pennsylvania-based photographer Jason Macchioni decided to visit a local overpass in Elizabethtown to take some photos for a time-lapse video he’s been putting together. As he was working, capturing images of the traffic rushing below him, he was stopped and beleaguered by Northwest Regional Police Officers Charles Tobias and Harry Cleland. Luckily for us, and Macchioni himself, he was able to capture footage, shown above, of nearly the entire confrontation

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