Photography Is Not A Crime of the Day: Simon Glik, a Boston lawyer who sued the city and several police officers for arresting him and seizing his phone while he was recording a violent drug arrest on the Boston Common, succeeded in convincing the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Photography Is Not A Crime of the Day: Freelance news photographer Phil Datz, a credentialed member of the press from Long Island, was arrested last Friday while filming Suffolk County police activity on public property, and charged with obstruction of governmental administration.

It is explicitly legal to record police in public in the state of New York.

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Photography Is Not A Crime of the Day: Commercial photographer Sandy DeWitt was recently escorted off a Miami-bound US Airways flight for taking the photo of a rude employee's nametag for use in a future complaint.

The employee, Tonialla G., reportedly chased DeWitt aboard the plane, and confronted her after the latter was

Photography Is Not A Crime of the Day: Reason.tv Producer Jim Epstein was attending a public meeting of the D.C. Taxi Commission concerning a proposed medallion system when he saw two police officers arrest journalist Pete Tucker -- an outspoken critic of medallions -- for snapping a photo of the proceedings.

Epstein filmed the arres

Photography Is Not A Crime of the Day: A man who witnessed last week's controversial fatal South Beach shooting of Raymond Herisse by Miami Beach police says he and his girlfriend were intimidated by cops who sought footage of the incident captured on his cell phone (see above).

"When he noticed me