Photojournalists and NPPA Achieve Historic Settlement with the NYPD

The NYPD also admitted the photographers had the First Amendment right to record police activity in public.

Le Monde

The NYPD now must implement policies and trainings to avoid the wrongful arrests and harassment of members of the press. NYPD officers are prohibited from arresting, restricting, or interfering with members of the press of merely observing or recording police activity in public places.

“This is not an agreement that will simply sit on a shelf,” says NPPA deputy general counsel Alicia Calzada. “It has real teeth and real mandates for improved training of police at all levels. We are hopeful this will truly change law enforcement culture when it comes to First Amendment activities on the street.”

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