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FuzzyRabbit

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Mon Sep 7, 2015, 09:31 PM Sep 2015

Alaska state trooper seizes reporter's camera memory card

". . . Trooper Sgt. Michael Ingram pulled over O’Connor’s vehicle and demanded that O’Connor turn over either his camera or the memory card documenting the arrest, saying it was potential evidence. O’Connor offered to share the images with law enforcement, but Ingram said he had to take the card into his possession and O’Connor complied with the order. . .

On Friday, the Frontiersman sent a formal letter of complaint to the Department of Public Safety, alleging that Sgt. Ingram had no right to seize the memory card and had violated the paper’s rights under the First and Fourth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

http://www.frontiersman.com/news/frontiersman-files-trooper-complaint/article_6d1cca68-543f-11e5-a5c1-a3fce5b89fc1.html
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Alaska state trooper seizes reporter's camera memory card (Original Post) FuzzyRabbit Sep 2015 OP
Time for reporters to start sending stuff to automatic backups so that seizure of cameras doesn't Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2015 #1
There are several apps that will do this. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2015 #2

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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1. Time for reporters to start sending stuff to automatic backups so that seizure of cameras doesn't
Mon Sep 7, 2015, 09:36 PM
Sep 2015

mean loss of images or video.

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