Across the country, police officers and other government officials are waging a war on cameras. People everywhere are being harassed, detained, threatened, assaulted, and even arrested just for legally taking photographs or filming. Government officials are even unlawfully confiscating cameras and destroying photographs and videos. This map was created to track this disturbing trend.
The map currently has more than 90 markers on it. Each marker represents one or more incidents in which a person was harassed, detained, threatened, attacked, arrested, or charged with a crime for using a camera, incidents where a camera was seized, or incidents where government officials attempted to cover up video evidence. The events on the map all occurred between 2005 and the present. I have tried to place all events as close as possible to where they happened. In some cases, I was able to get the exact address. In other cases, I was able to get the street address. In others, I was only able to narrow it down to a city or town.
This map is not intended to be comprehensive. It is a perpetual work-in-progress and I will continue adding new events to it for the foreseeable future. If you would like to tell me about an incident that I missed, see below for information on how to do so.
See the “Map Updates” section of this site for information about updates to the map. You can subscribe to the map updates here.
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