{"id":711,"date":"2002-09-23T17:22:47","date_gmt":"2002-09-24T01:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/23\/up-skirt-photography-reprehensible-but-legal\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T14:04:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T22:04:56","slug":"up-skirt-photography-reprehensible-but-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/23\/up-skirt-photography-reprehensible-but-legal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Up-skirt&#8217; photography &#8216;reprehensible&#8217; but legal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here&#8217;s something handy just in case I decide to take my photography in a new direction &#8212; in public areas, peeking up skirts <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/local\/87863_voyeur20.shtml\" title=\"Seattle PI: Filming up women's skirts is ruled legal\">is completely legal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The state&#8217;s voyeurism law protects people who are in a place where they &#8220;would have a reasonable expectation of privacy&#8221; &#8212; meaning the person could expect to be able to undress in seclusion or &#8220;be safe from hostile intrusion or surveillance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  But the court found the law doesn&#8217;t apply to filming people in a public place, even if it&#8217;s underneath their clothes.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;It is the physical location of the person that is ultimately at issue, not the part of the person&#8217;s body,&#8221; Judge Bobbe Bridge wrote.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Laws are funny things, sometimes, both with what they cover and what they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state&#8217;s voyeurism law protects people who are in a place where they &#8216;would have a reasonable expectation of privacy&#8217;&#8230;. But the court found the law doesn&#8217;t apply to filming people in a public place, even if it&#8217;s underneath their clothes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711"}],"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=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}