ACLU sues Sheriff's Department in LA for harassing Photoogs

Photographers are being stopped more frequently and we can only hope that the courts will continue to side with us. Since most of these so-called targets have been photographed for decades by millions of tourists and published in every possible medium - stopping photographers is a huge over-reach.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/aclu-sues-.html

The article states: "Photography is not a crime. It's protected 1st Amendment expression," said Peter Bibring, senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California. "It violates the Constitution's core protections for sheriff’s deputies to detain and search people who are doing nothing wrong. To single them out for such treatment while they’re pursuing a constitutionally protected activity is doubly wrong." Bibring said the policy and practices of the Sheriff's Department reflect a widespread misuse of "suspicious activity reporting" under the auspices of Homeland Security and counterterrorism. Similar suits have been filed in several other states.