{"id":4078,"date":"2010-07-26T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T12:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2010-08-05T10:04:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T14:04:18","slug":"you-can-take-pictures-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/07\/26\/you-can-take-pictures-here\/","title":{"rendered":"You *Can* Take Pictures Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post covers the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/25\/AR2010072502795.html?hpid=moreheadlines&amp;sid=ST2010072503132\">ongoing inability of police to understand or acknowledge<\/a> that people can almost always take pictures whenever they want:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few weeks ago, on his way to work, Matt Urick stopped to snap a few pictures of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development&#8217;s headquarters. He thought the building was ugly but might make for an interesting photo. The uniformed officer who ran up to him didn&#8217;t agree. He told Urick he was not allowed to photograph federal buildings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten this before, and my general reaction is to aggressively assert my rights. \u00c2\u00a0The photography involved has never been particularly important or informative, but that&#8217;s up to me to decide, not a police officer who doesn&#8217;t understand the law. \u00c2\u00a0Lots of people don&#8217;t react they way I do, of course, and for understandable reasons:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Urick wanted to tell the guard that there are pictures of the building on HUD&#8217;s Web site, that every angle of the building is visible in street views on Google Maps and that he was merely an amateur photographer, not a threat. But Urick kept all this to himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of these guys have guns and are enforcing laws they obviously don&#8217;t understand, and they are not to be reasoned with,&#8221; he said. After detaining Urick for a few minutes and conferring with a colleague on a radio, the officer let him go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This continuing\u00c2\u00a0harassment\u00c2\u00a0by law enforcement officials is <a href=\"http:\/\/carlosmiller.com\/2010\/07\/26\/mainstream-media-continues-to-address-the-cops-vs-photographer-epidemic\/\">getting a lot of coverage.<\/a> I hope it will sink in at some point. \u00c2\u00a0Until then, I suggest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krages.com\/phoright.htm\">a quick review of your rights<\/a> in the US. \u00c2\u00a0In the UK, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/photos\/photographers-rights-and-the-law.html\">check this out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post covers the ongoing inability of police to understand or acknowledge that people can almost always take pictures whenever they want: A few weeks ago, on his way to work, Matt Urick stopped to snap a few pictures of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development&#8217;s headquarters. He thought the building was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4089,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions\/4089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}