Beware taking photos of your kids

[Warrior]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1035315/Father-branded-pervert--photographing-children-public-park.html

[Bishop37]

This seems to be happening more and more.

Even our photographers get grilled when they go to schools to take pics for new starter classes and education-related stories.

The country's turning into a right nanny state.

I'm all for protecting innocent children, but honestly, this story and others like it proves that common sense has gone out the window.

[Warrior]

Hey, did you ever read the PM I sent?

[Bishop37]

Hey, did you ever read the PM I sent?

What PM? (Obviously not).

D, the cat's been quite ill with a chest infection so my head's been all over the place for about a week so I've not been keeping up with stuff.

[necron2.0]

As I've mentioned before, I was born and (largely) raised in Alaska, but we briefly lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and my two older brothers started High School while we lived there.

Last summer, my oldest brother - a photographer - while visting family in New Mexico, stopped by his old high school (Google Earth coordinates: 35.13212222, -106.5829917). While standing on a public sidewalk, he snapped a couple quick pictures for his photo album. Again, it was summer, school was out and there were no children present. He was almost arrested just the same.

[Bishop37]

I'm wondering if perverts actually stand in plain sight where everyone can see them.

[Warrior]

What PM? (Obviously not).

D, the cat's been quite ill with a chest infection so my head's been all over the place for about a week so I've not been keeping up with stuff.I sent it on the 10th.

[Gemini1999]

Oh, for god's sake.....!

I know that people think that they mean well, but they need to worry about their own children and just leave it at that.

I agree with Peter - I seriously doubt that a pervert would be found in plain sight where everyone can see and identify him. If people would just engage their brains first...

Bryan

[Darth Marley]

When you go outside, people can see you (or your kids).

I recall a news feature that took place somewhere near New Jersey. In a suburban area with closely spaced homes, one family had placed an above-ground pool in their tiny back yard for their kids (2 daughters 9-13 or so in age).

The kids would screem while playing, as kids do.
This annoyed the neighbors, who went through the usual process of dealing with a noise nuisance: ask them to stop, ask municipal authorities to issue citations, and when the environmental or codes court reviewed the case, the complaining neighbors displayed a video of the kids playing and screaming loudly while doing so.

Suddenly the parents of the girls who were unconcerned with the thought of their daughters shrieking outside to the annoyance of neighbors became quite agitated that their girls were filmed in their swimwear.

No thought was given to the idea that if they just shut the kids up, this would not have happened.

But even in your back yard, when you go outside, people can see you.

[Loki]

It's a complicated issue. I don't know about other states, but here usually people don't get very far with noise complaints unless it's late at night or beyond a certain time at night.

Taking video or photographs of other people's kids is a no-no as well, and can land someone in trouble. Even in schools parents have to sign a permission form for schools in order for videos or pictures to be taken of their children.

[Devlyn16]

Didn't there used to be some sort of law about if it happens in public it can be photographed.

I seem to recall this being mentioned in regard to paparatzi. In that if no specail measueres (like climbing a tree for example) were required to obtain the photograph then they could even snap photos of the interior oof a house if the drapes were open.

How many classic "Crowd Shots" could be lost due to a childs presence?

Pictures of the Zoo, The circus ETC. I'm all for kepping pedophiles away from kids, but at soem point shouldn't amature photographers be protected too?

[Bishop37]

Even in schools parents have to sign a permission form for schools in order for videos or pictures to be taken of their children.

That happens here too.

[necron2.0]

See, now, that's just plain retarded, and I'd never abide by it. That's something that'd I'd force someone to confront me on, and then sue the crap out of them.

[BST]

What the hell kind of society have we become? I'm actually embarassed that our generation has produced these mental misfits.

This is the same type of over-reaction / absolutism that schools are using when they suspend kids for bringing 'questionable items' to school.

Sometimes, I just wish that we could start over.

[dru]

I suspect if it had been the wife taking the photos no one would've said a thing.

[BST]

I suspect if it had been the wife taking the photos no one would've said a thing.

Yep, loving, respectful fathers couldn't possibly be given the same acceptance. They're right up there with sexual deviants and child abusers after all.

:rolleyes: