A Connecticut television photographer’s federal lawsuit could shed some legal light on how far journalists can go to record police activity and what rights they might have to use drones to gather news.
Photographer Pedro Rivera, who works on an on-call basis for WFSB-TV, took his remote-controlled drone — which weighs 2 1/2-pounds and is propelled by four rotors — to the scene of a serious motor vehicle accident in Hartford on Feb. 1, 2014. While flying the camera-carrying drone 150 feet above the accident scene and recording police activity, Rivera, in court documents, says he personally was “standing in a public place, operating his device in public space, observing events that were in plain view.”
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