{"id":4216,"date":"2008-06-04T16:17:28","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T23:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/06\/04\/photographing-the-police\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T09:32:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:32:48","slug":"photographing-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/06\/04\/photographing-the-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing the Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5520,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/localnews\\\/2004002210_webphotographer08m.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/localnews\\\/2004002210_webphotographer08m.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5521,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\\\/local\\\/365706_police04.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20090224105738\\\/http:\\\/\\\/seattlepi.nwsource.com:80\\\/local\\\/365706_police04.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 10:55:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 10:55:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5522,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattlest.com\\\/2008\\\/06\\\/04\\\/spd_reminds_off.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20080829140347\\\/http:\\\/\\\/seattlest.com\\\/2008\\\/06\\\/04\\\/spd_reminds_off.php&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 10:55:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 10:55:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;is perfectly legal. Not that this should be a big surprise, but after the City of Seattle <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2004002210_webphotographer08m.html\" title=\"Seattle Times: Man arrested for photographing police activity receives settlement\">settled a lawsuit with a photographer<\/a> last year to the tune of $8,000, the Seattle Police Department is <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/365706_police04.html\" title=\"Seattle PI: Seattle police to issue new policy on bystanders\">clarifying its policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The Seattle Police Department this week plans to issue a new policy clarifying when bystanders are within their rights to observe and document officer conduct and when they&#8217;re interfering with officers&#8217; law enforcement duties, a department official told the City Council&#8217;s Public Safety Committee during a briefing Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>  The new policy clearly reminds officers that bystanders have a right to watch or film officers making an arrest, as long as they don&#8217;t interfere or threaten their safety&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>  It also emphasizes that police can&#8217;t simply seize someone&#8217;s camera for video evidence without cause or court order and suggests alternative means of negotiating with the witness.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/seattlest.com\/2008\/06\/04\/spd_reminds_off.php\" title=\"Seattlest: SPD Reminds Officers Of Bystanders' Rights To Film\">Seattlest<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is perfectly legal. Not that this should be a big surprise, but after the City of Seattle settled a lawsuit with a photographer last year to the tune of $8,000, the Seattle Police Department has clarified its policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050,2042],"tags":[27,140],"class_list":["post-4216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-politics","tag-photography","tag-seattle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}