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Police around the country continue to individuals鈥� right to photography. A photographer named Carlos Miller maintains a web site in which he . Now, Miller himself has about his own arrest for photography, which took place during the eviction of Miami Occupy protesters in January. Using an open-records request, that officials at the Miami-Dade Police Homeland Security Bureau, Fusion Center, had exchanged numerous e-mails over a period of months, in which they discuss their monitoring of Miller and his activities.

The Miami Fusion Center is supposed to be protecting the public. Its stated is 鈥渢o ensure the effective dissemination of criminal intelligence information鈥� to enhance our ability to secure the homeland, while protecting the privacy of our citizens.鈥� (emphasis added)

Instead of focusing on criminals, or anything else that would 鈥渟ecure the homeland,鈥� the fusion center officials, according to Miller鈥檚 account (based on the documents he received), spent time tracking the activities of a reporter who was monitoring them, and arresting him () for no clear reason.

The right to photography is legally very well established, so much so that the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that not only were Boston police wrong in arresting a man, Simon Glik, for videotaping them, but that the officers were not even entitled to 鈥溾�� from Glik鈥檚 resulting lawsuit, because his constitutional right to videotape the police in public was under the law when it was violated.

In addition to resisting public monitoring of their official activities, many police are influenced by fatuous guidance over 鈥渟uspicious activity reporting.鈥� As Miller , the Miami fusion center, true to form, lists 鈥渋nappropriate photographs or videos鈥� and 鈥渟urveillance鈥� as 鈥渟igns of terrorism.鈥�

Unfortunately, the behavior described by Miller also fits right in with a pattern we have seen around the nation. Police units are set up supposedly to fight terrorism, but terrorism being (fortunately) extremely rare, they are all dressed up with nowhere to go, and all these resources end up being targeted against ordinary Americans exercising their First Amendment rights.