{"id":1131,"date":"2012-02-10T14:40:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T19:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:26:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:26:22","slug":"jersey-city-police-accused-of-violating-rights-camera-illegally-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/?p=1131","title":{"rendered":"Jersey City Police Accused of Violating Rights, Camera Illegally Seized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/hudson\/index.ssf\/2012\/02\/man_says_jersey_city_cops_conf.html\">The Jersey Journal<\/A> reports that Anthony Hardy filed a complaint against Jersey City Police for violating the constitutionally protected right of photography in a public space. While we aren&#8217;t normally interested in police blotter stories, as a blog that bases much of the content on public photography, we find this form of police abuse especially offensive. <\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/free-speech\/know-your-rights-photographers\">explains rights of photographers<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Taking photographs of things that are plainly visible from public spaces is a constitutional right \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and that includes federal buildings, transportation facilities, and police and other government officials carrying out their duties.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you think the ACLU is just a liberal sock puppet, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/technology\/how-to\/computer-security\/taking-photos-in-public-places-is-not-a-crime\">Popular Mechanics<\/A> and the <A href=\"http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/18\/you-can-photograph-that-federal-building\/?gwh=A9E8C3296F8600962782AD4280253F05\">New York Times<\/A> both report on recent incidents. <\/p>\n<p>Photography is a constitutionally protected free speech right. We hope the officers involved in this incident are severely disciplined and the entirety of the JCPD educated on the issue of photography rights. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/hudson\/index.ssf\/2012\/02\/man_says_jersey_city_cops_conf.html\">The Jersey Journal<\/A> reports that Anthony Hardy filed a complaint against Jersey City Police for violating the constitutionally protected right of photography in a public space. While we aren&#8217;t normally interested in police blotter stories, as a blog that bases much of the content on public photography, we find this form of police abuse especially offensive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jersey-city"],"views":2465,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}