{"id":1817,"date":"2009-05-18T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T09:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/photos_official\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T02:19:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T07:19:03","slug":"photos_official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/photos_official\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos officially OK in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Finally, common sense prevails<\/strong> over security theatre and knee-jerk paranoia:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Faced with complaints from photographers and tourists alike, the NYPD has issued a department order reminding cops that the right to take pictures in the Big Apple is as American as apple pie.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Photography and the videotaping of public places, buildings and structures are common activities within New York City . . . and is rarely unlawful,&#8221; the NYPD operations order begins. [From the <i><a title=\"Shutterbugged\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/04132009\/news\/regionalnews\/shutterbugged_164159.htm\">New York Post<\/a><\/i>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71674\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/operationsorderinvestigationofindividualsengagedinsuspiciousphotographyandvideosurveillance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1085\" height=\"1311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/operationsorderinvestigationofindividualsengagedinsuspiciousphotographyandvideosurveillance.jpg 1085w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/operationsorderinvestigationofindividualsengagedinsuspiciousphotographyandvideosurveillance-248x300.jpg 248w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/operationsorderinvestigationofindividualsengagedinsuspiciousphotographyandvideosurveillance-847x1024.jpg 847w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/operationsorderinvestigationofindividualsengagedinsuspiciousphotographyandvideosurveillance-768x928.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[Click the image above to enlarge and print for yourself to carry around, if you&#8217;re so inclined.]<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope they finally drop the anti-photography here in the UK one of these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, common sense prevails over security theatre and knee-jerk paranoia: Faced with complaints from photographers and tourists alike, the NYPD has issued a department order reminding cops that the right to take pictures in the Big Apple is as American as apple pie. &#8220;Photography and the videotaping of public places, buildings and structures are common &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/photos_official\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photos officially OK in NYC&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultrapolitical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71675,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/71675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}