[riverrunner]

No such law needed.

[FreedomPoster]

Not only no, but H*** NO!

[Secret Agent Man]

I agree, no.

[Delta 21]

What kind of law will only be enforced on a small select few?
You already control them with their pay check. Do you need this kind of leverage over your employees? Just make them slaves instead.
Of course, more laws is always the answer.

[Secret Agent Man]

If people are violating laws by crossing a police tape, or touching things, we already have charges for that kind of thing. Now if they cross a police line and arent supposed to be there and take pictures, their pictures ought to be forfeited as they were taken while breaking the law.

[eldoradude]

NFW.

[Gay State Conservative]

In my home state it's my understanding that it's illegal for a person to record,video or audio,a police stop.If true this could be seen by cops as a license to engage in illegality with a particular motorist.

The Amazon Compost's masthead is,in fact,correct: "Democracy Dies In Darkness".Of course the problem with that masthead is that the Compost doesn't give a rat's hindquarters about democracy.

[Jeff Chandler]

First Amendment.

[a fool in paradise]

Would it pass 1st amendment challenge?

[Husker24]

We have enough laws.

[Drew68]

My neighborhood has a Facebook page, as many neighborhoods today do. Someone posted a photo of a bad car accident, much like the pic in the OP, as a warning to other residents that traffic will be backed up. Another resident recognized the car involved as belonging to a family member and this was how she learned that their loved one was involved in a horrific accident. Not from the police. From Facebook.

No law is needed but people should be aware of potential unintended consequences when they post pics like the one above.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

But while certainly a tasteless thing to do, it wasn’t technically illegal so there wasn’t much to be done about it.

Yes, there was a great deal that could have been done about it.

Was the person who took the photos fired?

Was their pension and other privileges revoked?

Was their name published along with pictures of them?

Oh, there is a great deal that could have been done.

[dragnet2]

With today’s technology, cameras in every hand, the first responders to a scene are generally not cops or firemen, but everyday people who happen to be there first.

[BenLurkin]

Too many taxes
Too many laws

[DesertRhino]

Nope. No problem with restricting on duty cops ability to use photos for personal use (technically they are evidence)

But a HUGE problem with stopping the general public. There are numerous historical photos this lunacy would have prevented. Howard Hughes crash scene, Oswald being shot, the Hindenburg, the Michael Hastings Mercedes crash, etc etc.

This is police state bullshit. If a citizen is standing somewhere legal, they should be able to photograph all that they can see with their eyes. This post 9/11 restricted photo zones crap is reminiscent of the USSR mentality.

[a fool in paradise]

EIGHT deputies did this.

Also, did the media run ANY of these photos?

Did the media PAY anyone for the use of the photos or did they just take them from the web and credit “twitter” etc?

A forensics photographer would be on scene regardless of these deputies and under Freedom of Information Act said photos could be obtained and released by anyone who sought them. Even the security camera footage of the Columbine Massacre was obtained by a FOIA request.

[ChildOfThe60s]

In order for this action to be limited to first responders, it seems to me that it would be better enacted as departmental policy in the first response units. They could provide for their own disciplinary measures for those found to be violating the rules.

This is a more reasoned approach.

[marktwain]

No. What happens in public should not be concealed.

[yesthatjallen]

Wild guess. Mike A. Gipson is black.

Blacks are upset some cop disrespected their hero, Kobe Bryant and they're 'outraged' so the entire racist system must be dismantled.

'Should it be a crime to take pictures of accident scenes?'

No photos(video) of crime scenes?

I wonder what Mr. Gipson would say about the Rodney King or Ahmaud Arbery videos.

[Elsie]

A bill that would make it a misdemeanor for first responders to share accident and crime scene photos …

The camel; now having his nose under the tent wall; will soon be inside, pushing ALL 'photographers' into jail for capturing an image that just a few microseconds BEFORE the impact would have been perfectly legal!

(The courts have already ruled there is no expectation of privacy in the public arena.)