University of Washington Professor Detained for Taking Pictures Sues
Jennifer Langston writes in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Artist Shirley Scheier drove to Snohomish to make the kind of picture you couldn't get in a city -- power lines against an unobstructed sky.More here.
She wound up being patted down, handcuffed and put in the back of a police car on that day two years ago, in a detention that lasted 44 minutes.
The electrical substation she photographed had been identified by the Department of Homeland Security as a "critical infrastructure" target.
The longtime UW professor sued the city of Snohomish on Thursday, in what her lawyers say is an example of harassment toward photographers resulting from misplaced fears about terrorism.
Note: I'm really keeping my fingers crossed in hopes that Professor Scheier wins her case, and sends a message that this nonsense needs to stop -- it's gotten way out of hand. -ferg
Image source: Wikimedia
posted by Fergie @ 11/15/2007 10:16:00 PM
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