Arizona Man Winds Up Jailed, Unemployed and Homeless After Photographing Courthouse :
Raymond Michael Rodden was bored this week, so he drove to downtown Phoenix and began walking around, snapping photos of the federal courthouse and the state capitol with his iPhone. The 33-year-old man ended up jailed, unemployed and homeless; his iPhone, iPad and Macintosh laptop confiscated as "Evidence." Ref. Source 2
I am unable to see the article but I want to know why people cannot take pictures of a courthouse? Isn't it because it is too private to have people with a camera? Do people have to be authorized to take pictures in a courthouse?
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Felipe, that's usually for two main reasons: privacy and security. Imagine that, in the UK, even television networks are forbidden to take images or pictures inside a courthouse. English media have professional sketchers that make drawings of the trial and those drawings are used on newspapers and in the tv as a way to substitute the movies that we see in our countries.
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These are totally bogus charges and taking photos of a building in an [American] city is not a crime. Just because it was 3 am does not matter. I would want to take pictures of buildings at night for two reasons. I would want to take pictures of the buildings at night when they are lite up and seem to glow and plus there is much less traffic and people around to ruin some of the photos.