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This story has been around for a couple of months now, but I thought I’d shoot it out here on Sublime Light. In February, a Miami photojournalist by the name of Carlos Miller was arrested for taking photographs of some police officers on a public street.

I won’t go into all the details of the story, you can easily read those in the main article. The main point to take away from this is that it’s pretty much legal to photograph anything as long as you’re on public property. There are a few exceptions to that rule of course. An attorney by the name of Bert P. Krages has a downloadable flyer in PDF format that I highly recommend every photographer read and keep handy with them. It details out just what your rights are as a photographer, and what you can and cannot legally photograph. You can find the flyer here.

It would seem that the police in this case were way off on their call to arrest Miller. However, he did make the dumb mistake (in my opinion) of antagonizing them a bit when he could have let well enough alone. He could have avoided a free meal paid for by the citizens of Miami. Was he within his rights? Yep. Can he sue? You betcha. Was it worth the trouble and a night in the slammer? Not in my book.