By Susan Llewelyn Leach
The Christian Science Monitor
Published: 5/23/05
Excerpt:
If security is sometimes overzealous, the rules themselves can also be vague and ad hoc. Overlapping law enforcement agencies, new restrictions imposed by local municipalities, and beefed-up security have all added to the murkiness.
“TSA [Transportation Security Administration] and [the Department of] Homeland Security have put a whole ‘nother layer of protection and concern and a level of bureaucracy to what journalists used to see as free rein,” says Kenneth Irby, visual journalism group leader at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla.
In general, photojournalists have no more rights than ordinary citizens to take pictures.
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