Picture America without pictures of America
A Coalition of Concerned Citizens, Filmmakers and Photographers

NPPA -- National Press Photographers Association

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Picture New York - August 2007
“We are offended at the notion that a city agency or police officer would have the power to keep a photographer from taking a picture or video on a public street. City property belongs to the citizens and the city has no right to limit safe, constitutionally protected behavior in a public venue.”
-- Tony Overman, president of the National Press Photographers Association |

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August 24, 2007

Thank you for the e-mail John.

I will forward this to Tony and the advocacy committee.
I am sure they will be glad to hear the praise and
it will give them an opportunity to look over the Picture America Project you asked about.

Thanks again,
Jim

Jim Straight
Executive Director
National Press Photographers Association
3200 Croasdaile Drive, Suite 306 Durham NC 27705
Direct: 919-383-7246 ext 10 • Fax: 919-383-7261
email: director at nppa.org • NPPA.org | 

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Picture New York | August 2007
Basically, this [proposed NY City film permit ordinance] opens the door to unlimited police interactions with photographers and filmmakers, because under these proposed rules, if they were passed, basically everyone with a camera, including everyone with a cell phone, would be someone who might have to have a permit to do photography... with all the people out there with cameras, most people are going to be left alone. This is going to give the police license to stop people they want to stop for whatever reason they want. And you can imagine who the likely targets are of that sort of enforcement... People with dark skin, people who look suspicious in the eyes of the police... It's going to be the people who tend to be harassed by the police in other contexts. -- Christopher Dunn

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August 2007
NY City proposed new rules that could have forced tourists taking snapshots in Times Square and filmmakers capturing that only-in-New-York street scene to obtain permits and $1 million in liability insurance.

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JOHN LONGENECKER

Picture America
A Coalition of Concerned Citizens, Filmmakers and Photographers
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