[Sussex] [OT] Photography petition

[Jon Fautley]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:44:15 +0100
Spam <steve at dobson.org> wrote:

> This kind of thing happened to another member of the Eastbourne
> Photographic Society last summer.  He was taking pictures of the
> tennis and was stopped by the police.  They confiscated his film (he
> shots slides mostly) and processed it themselves (very badly) to see
> that he wasn't a paedophile. 

Erm, I'm not too sure they can do that...

Not sure on the exact laws, but unless they had evidence he was
actually a paedophile, they shouldn't have taken (and essentially,
destroyed) his film. I suggest he file a complaint with the police
complains commission.

Cheers,

/j
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