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Know Your Rights: Photographers
Photography at the airport Photography has also served as an important check on government power in the airline security context. The Transportation Security Agency (TSA) acknowledges that photography is permitted in and around airline security checkpoints as long as you're not interfering with the screening process. The agency does ask that its security monitors not be photographed, though it is not clear whether they have any legal basis for such a restriction when the monitors are… (www.aclu.org) More...I am a railfan. Planes are my job. We are sometimes questioned by police but that is a rare occasion. I've had four encounters with law enforcement while photographing and all have been very positive. The officers only wanted to know what was going on and in most cases started talking trains. BNSF and now AMTRAK encourage railfans because we recognize things or people that are abnormal and report them.
This is a great summary of photographer's rights.
Not to side track the post, but as I recall, it is not clear whether the TSA has a legal basis to do a lot of what they do.
Not to side track the post, but as I recall, it is not clear whether the TSA has a legal basis to do a lot of what they do.
Good article here with much good information. I think the best thing anyone can ever do is to respond politely though. You catch more flies with honey as they say...
Man, so true.