Remember - You have a right to take pictures at public places

There is a disturbing trend.  More and more people are being hassled about taking pictures in public places.  The Navigator: Don’t shoot? But it’s a public space reports:

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“I used to deal with one of these a month,” says Mickey Osterreicher, the general counsel of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA). “Then it was weekly. Now it’s almost every day. Citizens are being told that they can’t take pictures out in public — whether it’s a building, a bridge or a train.”
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Later Osterreicher shares his understanding of the law:

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Osterreicher says that there are only two public areas in the United States where you can’t shoot pictures: military bases and nuclear facilities. “The warnings are clearly posted,” he says. “Otherwise, if the public is allowed, then so are their rights.”
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My guess is many of the policemen trying to arrest people for taking pictures in public places went to public schools and slept through the one hour lecture on the Bill of Rights.

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