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The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and six news industry associations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief challenging the Illinois Eavesdropping Act, arguing that it is so broad that it inhibits the basic right to gather information.
Connecticut is considering a bill that would make any police officer "who interferes with a person taking a photographic or digital still or video image" of a police officer performing his or her duties liable for damages, provided the citizen did not obstruct or hinder the police officer's performance. It appears to be the first time such a bill has been considered by a state legislature.
Rap concert organizers did not violate a police official’s privacy when they recorded the officer’s backstage comments and included them in a DVD, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled last week.
However, the 6-1 decision in Bowens v. Ary, Inc. was a narrow one limited to the event in question and stopped short of holding that police officers have no reasonable expectation of privacy when performing their public duties.
Releasing certain images, video and audio recordings regarding a prison murder and mutilation would violate the personal privacy of the prisoner's family, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Denver (10th Cir.) ruled Tuesday. The three-judge panel upheld a lower court's ruling that Exemption 7(c) to the federal Freedom of Information Act was properly applied and that the images would remain private in Prison Legal News v. Executive Office for United States Attorneys.
A civil rights group has filed a lawsuit against the federal government over the November arrest of a photographer outside of a federal courthouse in Manhattan, The New York Times reported.
A Colorado district court has denied an insurance marketing company's motion to compel NBC's Dateline to hand over unaired camera footage.
Insurance marketer Brokers' Choice of America sued NBC and its owner, General Electric, after two Dateline producers posed as insurance agents from Alabama to gain access to an educational seminar on insurance sales practices, The Denver Postreported early last year.
Hustler has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a federal court ruling that said the magazine used the image of a murdered professional wrestler for commercial -- not news -- purposes that violated her family's right-of-publicity interests.
A television news cameraman in New Jersey has filed a 17-count lawsuit against a police officer and the city of Newark, alleging that he was assaulted while covering demonstration against street violence, The Star-Ledger reported.
A revised policy for reporters embedded with the U.S. military command in eastern Afghanistan released Thursday retreats from a more stringent version imposed last month, the Washington Postreports.
The agreement journalists must sign to become embedded with a military unit in Afghanistan now includes a prohibition against any photographic or video coverage of U.S. troops killed in action, according to a copy of the latest agreement.
