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Posts from December 2011

4 months ago

TSA Calls Cops On Me For Video Recording Checkpoint In D.C.

The first Transportation Security Administration screener I encountered at Ronald Reagan National Airport on my return flight to Miami from Washington D.C. Wednesday told me he would not let me board if I did not stop video recording. I told him that TSA policy allows me to record the checkpoints, but he wasn’t buying it. He called a supervisor, who told me the same thing; that video [...]

4 months ago

Police Confiscate Camera, Arrest Woman After She Recorded Melee

It's hard to tell what happened in a North Carolina melee that resulted in several arrests on Christmas Eve. The reporter who wrote the story doesn't have a knack for telling a story. And the witness who video recorded the melee was herself arrested by Jacksonville police and had her camera phone confiscated. Daisy Besancourt was charged with failure to disperse on command after she recorded the [...]

4 months ago

Testing TSA Photo Policy At Miami International Airport Again

So I couldn't resist pulling out my Flip camera as I walked through the TSA checkpoint in Miami International Airport on the way to Washington D.C. this morning, even though I was dead tired from having partied all day Sunday at my friend's house. I was operating on three-hour sleep, so I wasn't as sharp I could have been. Otherwise, I would have opted out of the radiation body scanner, which [...]

4 months ago

Davy Vara, Longtime Activist, Visits Miami

One of the greatest things of running this blog is the people I meet. Over the years, I’ve met several very cool readers visiting Miami from all parts of the country as well as readers in various parts of the country outside Miami. This year was no different. I had a great time taking photos with JT. And I will never forget EK and his crazy whip in Austin. And thanks to JM, who was recently [...]

4 months ago

2011: The Photography Is Not A Crime Year In Review

Photography is Not a Crime continued to grow in popularity reaching record numbers, especially over the summer, specifically the month of July where more than 540,000 page views were reached. PINAC racked up more than a half-million page views in August as well. But in the fourth year of running PINAC I’ve learned that summer is my busy season. That's when everybody is out and about with [...]

4 months ago

Man Threatened With Arrest For Photographing Undercover Cops From Front Yard

A New Jersey man who stepped out of his home to photograph a mob of cops conducting some type of investigation in a barber shop was confronted, harassed and threatened with arrest. But Todd Dreyer says he’s a Photography is Not a Crime fan, so he wasn’t intimidated and he didn’t back down. And he wasn’t afraid to post their photo on his blog along with the audio recording [...]

4 months ago

Georgia Transportation Official Gets Camera Shy When Asked Simple Question

  Rudy Bowen, Georgia Department of Transportation board chairman, was unable to come up with a believable excuse as to why he wasn’t attending a town hall meeting addressing concerns over controversial lanes meant to reduce traffic in the Atlanta area. So Bowen did what any public official would do when put on the spot by a television news crew. He reached his hand out in an attempt to [...]

4 months ago

Connecticut School District Flack Grabs Journalist's Camera

In less than one minute, a Connecticut school district spokesman managed to demonstrate exactly what not to do as a spokesman. Chris Hoffman, the official flack for the New Haven School District – which means he gets paid to answer reporters’ questions on camera – grabbed a reporter’s camera as she tried to interview him on video. Melissa Bailey, New Haven Independent [...]

4 months ago

Grandparents Ejected From Shopping Mall For Photographing Grandson

Security guards in an Indiana mall ejected a pair of grandparents for snapping a photo of their five-year-old grandson. Don Oberloh and his wife Debbie Cassella were sitting in a café at the University Park Mall in Mishawaka, planning to take the child to see Santa Claus. Oberloh snapped the photo of his grandson who was visiting with his mother from California. The boy’s mother was [...]

5 months ago

New Jersey Lawmakers Once Again Trying To Ban Photography In Knee-Jerk Panic

When it comes to hysteria against photographers, no state appears to be worse than New Jersey. Earlier this year, New Jersey legislators were attempting to make it illegal to photograph children in public, which stemmed from an incident where a 63-year-old man was photographing children at a pool because he found them sexy. The law, which would have sentenced people to at least three years in [...]

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