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Post by Ripley on Oct 2, 2015 17:31:21 GMT -5
"The city of Atlanta says it will repeal an ordinance aimed at “street photographers” and widely condemned by legal experts as unconstitutional after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and a local civil rights lawyer raised questions about the matter. Several photographers have told the AJC that officers have recently cited the ordinance, which dates back to 1977, in rousting them from public streets near movie sets. “I thought it was bogus,” said Michael Griffin Jr., who’d been hearing about the new ordinance for weeks and feared it would hinder his business. “It was a big shocker to have that happen. We can’t shoot from the sidewalk?”...
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