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Spokane County employee run to ground by Feds for taking pic of weigh station

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Spokane County employee run to ground by Feds for taking pic of weigh station

Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

John sez, "This is from Spokane County's official transportation blog. The county employee who runs the blog was taking pictures of a weigh station that is going to be moved. Ten minutes later he was contacted by the state patrol on his phone." I was out taking pictures this morning of sites of transportation projects to be completed over the next twenty years. One of those projects is to move of the...

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Yes, You Can Take Photos on the Metro Red Line

LAist (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

Earlier this afternoon, boingboing highlighted an incident that occurred last night at a Metro Red Line station in which someone taking photos was stopped by a Metro employee. "Hey! It's against the 9-11 Law to take pictures down here man!" It led to a little back and forth, then the loudspeaker came on: "Attention to the gentleman in the plaid shirt: You are not allowed to take photographs in the...

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Your Rights as a Photographer

Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008

There’s been some buzz the past couple of days about an incident on a Red Line platform in which a man was told he couldn't take pictures because of the “9/11 Law.” A transcript of the entire ridiculous exchange between the photog and Metro is available here on BoingBoing. (Metro employees really should refrain from [...]