Overman said that while he was taking photos, an officer put up a police-tape boundary behind him. Overman said that when Lacey detective David Miller told him to move outside the boundary, he complied.

He said that as he walked away, he overheard the detective tell another officer that Overman should be arrested immediately if he crossed the police line.

Overman said he turned around and approached the detective.

"I just wanted to understand why he was singling me out when I had complied with everything he asked me to do," Overman said Saturday.

"I wasn't angry," he added. "I just don't like seeing the media singled out and picked on."

Overman said that the two walked toward each other and that the detective screamed at him.

They got so close that their noses briefly touched, Overman said; he says he was shoved backward and arrested.

Overman was detained, cited and released, Suessman said. Overman said he was handcuffed and spent about 30 minutes in the back of a patrol car.

A couple from Pittsburgh has sued Google because a photo of their house appeared on Google Street View. They are demanding in excess of $25,000 to make up for the 'mental suffering' and the diminished value of their home. Their street is apparently marked with a 'Private Road' sign, and they claim that putting a photo of their property online is an 'intentional and/or grossly reckless invasion' of their privacy. Google, on the other hand, claims that this lawsuit is pointless since anyone can ask them to have pictures removed without legal action.

Well, since it was a private road, I don't think that legally Google was in the clear. If the photos were taken from a public road, they would be fine.

The brothers were arrested at their southeast Houston home on Jan. 4, 2002, when Sean Ibarra took pictures of an officer during a drug raid at their next-door neighbor's house after a neighbor asked him to document how deputies were treating the children there.

The Ibarras allege the deputies then burst into their home without a warrant and arrested them without probable cause, destroying film in their camera and yanking the memory stick out of a videocamera. An attorney defending the deputies told jurors the undercover officers feared such pictures could expose their faces to the public and endanger their lives.

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Still, she stopped short of calling the deputies' actions criminal.

"This is more from the standpoint of a Fourth Amendment violation ... It's an unlawful seizure," Cook said. "I wouldn't call it a theft."

I wish those clips were aired on COPS.

The couple were on a four-day break from their home in Spain and wanted to surprise their family by arriving at the centre, in Fareham, Hants, while they were shopping.

But when they went to take a photo, a security guard pounced and ordered them out.

The guard then insisted that cameras were banned because of the risk of a terrorist attack - and barred the bemused couple for life.

Police have seized films from an amateur photographer, accusing him of obtaining photographs of possibly sensitive material in Hull city centre.

Photo enthusiast Steve Carroll has lodged an official complaint against Humberside Police after the incident on 1 December.

Carroll said that the officers objected to him photographing 'sensitive buildings', one later adding that people had been anxious about his use of the camera.

Carroll told the officers he was entitled to take pictures in a public place.

'All the shots were of people. I took shots of people crossing the road, the Big Issue seller, two youths drinking from beer cans, people walking in the street and so on,' said Carroll who told us he was making his first attempt at 'street photography'.

A Newton activist who concealed a camera to videotape a Boston University police sergeant was convicted of violating state wiretapping laws. An associate is charged with witness intimidation.

Peter Lowney, 36, was sentenced last week to six months probation and fined $500. A Brighton District Court judge ordered him to stay away from the sergeant and remove footage from the Internet.

Lowney shot the film during a 2006 political protest. Ordered to stop recording, officers arrested Lowney for hiding the still-rolling camera in his coat.