A court has upheld the constitutional right of Texans to photograph
strangers as an essential component of freedom of speech - even if those
images should happen to be surreptitious “upskirt” pictures of women
taken for the purposes of sexual gratification.
Criticising an anti-“creepshot” law as a “paternalistic” intrusion on a person’s right to be aroused, the Texas court of criminal appeals struck down part of the state’s “improper photography or visual recording” statute which banned photographing, broadcasting or transmitting a visual image of another person without the other’s consent and with the intention to “arouse or gratify … sexual desire”.
The case stemmed from the arrest of a man in his early 50s named Ronald Thompson who was stopped in 2011 at Sea World in San Antonio after parents reported him swimming with and taking pictures of children aged 3-11. The local district attorney’s office said that he tried to delete the photographs before his camera was seized and a police examination of it revealed 73 images of children in swimsuits “with most of the photographs targeting the children’s breast and buttocks areas”.
Read more http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19/texas-court-upholds-right-to-take-upskirt-photos
Editors Note: If this happened in Maine the Police would probably never have been called. The parents would have politely informed this gentleman that he shouldn't take pictures of their kids. :)
Criticising an anti-“creepshot” law as a “paternalistic” intrusion on a person’s right to be aroused, the Texas court of criminal appeals struck down part of the state’s “improper photography or visual recording” statute which banned photographing, broadcasting or transmitting a visual image of another person without the other’s consent and with the intention to “arouse or gratify … sexual desire”.
The case stemmed from the arrest of a man in his early 50s named Ronald Thompson who was stopped in 2011 at Sea World in San Antonio after parents reported him swimming with and taking pictures of children aged 3-11. The local district attorney’s office said that he tried to delete the photographs before his camera was seized and a police examination of it revealed 73 images of children in swimsuits “with most of the photographs targeting the children’s breast and buttocks areas”.
Read more http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19/texas-court-upholds-right-to-take-upskirt-photos
Editors Note: If this happened in Maine the Police would probably never have been called. The parents would have politely informed this gentleman that he shouldn't take pictures of their kids. :)
