Alameda Sheriff boots reporter from SWAT show for "unauthorized photos"

Cory Doctorow

11:49 am Mon, Sep 8, 2014

Though he was there on a press-badge, after a day's tweeting from the event, he was <a href="https://twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/508739161331744769">evicted from the event</a> and had his press-credentials yanked by the Sheriff's office's PR guy, for "unauthorized photography." Bauer was also <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/08/armed-guards-ushered-me-out-prison-convention">recently evicted from a trade-show for prisons</a>.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">For the record, <a href="https://twitter.com/ACSOSheriffs">@ACSOSheriffs</a>, I wasn't aware there were public places in the US where picture taking needed to be "authorized" by the cops.— Shane Bauer (@shane_bauer) <a href="https://twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/508740114793521152">September 7, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">Just talked to <a href="https://twitter.com/ACSOSheriffs">@ACSOSheriffs</a> PR guy. Said they took our credentials for taking "unauthorized photos." He won't say where. We can't go back.— Shane Bauer (@shane_bauer) <a href="https://twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/508739161331744769">September 7, 2014</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><a href="https://storify.com/smbauer1/urban-shield-swat-convention-in-oakland-2014">Storify collection of Baeur's Urban Shielf photos</a>(Thanks, Pteryxx!)</body></html>'>