Panel outlines photographers' First Amendment rights
Khai Le
Photo journalists are fully protected by the First Amendment, but their rights are not absolute, photographers, police and lawyers explained Oct. 23 at a National Press Club panel sponsored by the Club's Photography Committee and the National Press Photographers Association as party of Free Speech Week.
"Photography is not a crime," moderator Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, said.
"Photography is a First Amendment right" attorney Robert Corn-Revere, a partner with the law firm, Davis Wright Tremaine, said. Corn-Revere, who specializes in free-speech cases, said courts have ruled "gathering information is part of the news process."