Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/19

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - student arrested for photographing public transit facility
From: "Kit McChesney | acmefoto" <kitmc@acmefoto.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:48:03 -0700

I ran into these kinds of issues in Africa, while photographing in
Mobutu-ruled former-Zaire, in the 1980s. No pictures of airports, roads,
monuments, and especially the Congo River! Not to mention officialdom of any
stripe. Not a photographer-friendly place, unless you are in the Cite, or
out in the countryside, or in the eastern part of the country, where the
regular citizenry love to be photographed, and children will chase you down
the street to get into a picture. At least that was the case back then. I
can't imagine how people respond to photographers today.

Kit

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Tim
Atherton
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 12:07 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - student arrested for photographing public
transit facility


> Great, now we need a de-coder ring to see when/if we can take
> pictures!  This is really getting out of hand.
>
> Frank

Not really - apparently it's always been illegal...,

from another list regarding problems photographing in Airports - any lawyers
out there know if it's correct?

>You bet it's on the books!!  The National Security Act of 1937(? date could
>be wrong but it's close!) made it illegal to photograph in airports, train
>stations, bus stations, shipping terminals, etc.  That it's being enforced
>in post-9/11 America where it once wasn't is no surprise to me.


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