[privacy] University of Washington Professor Detained for Taking Pictures Sues

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The Seattle P-I.

[snip]

Artist Shirley Scheier drove to Snohomish to make the kind of picture you
couldn't get in a city -- power lines against an unobstructed sky.

She wound up being patted down, handcuffed and put in the back of a police
car on that day two years ago, in a detention that lasted 44 minutes.

The electrical substation she photographed had been identified by the
Department of Homeland Security as a "critical infrastructure" target.

The longtime UW professor sued the city of Snohomish on Thursday, in what
her lawyers say is an example of harassment toward photographers resulting
from misplaced fears about terrorism.

[snip]

More:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/339897_photos16.html

Note:
I'm really keeping my fingers crossed in hopes that Professor Scheier wins
her case, and sends a message that this nonsense needs to stop -- it's
gotten way out of hand:

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_war_on_the.html

- - ferg

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