One Year Later... Photos from the UC Berkeley Chancellor's House Protest on 12/11/10

The photo above depicts the booty for which UCPD targeted me. UCPD ignored the fact that I was photographing the demonstration as a journalist and instead looked at me as a goody bag to do with as they pleased.

It was not until the ill-gotten search warrant was quashed on June 18th, 2010, that UCPD returned the original mini-disk containing my photographs. The disk also contained photographs I shot at an occupation at SF State University in the early morning hours the day before (which I had fortunately uploaded to a computer before UCPD confiscated my camera and the mini-disk). The larger CD with copies of my photos is a disk that UCPD had offered me in a court hearing prior to the court order overturning the warrant. In that same hearing, a temporary injunction against UC's use of the photos was issued and UCPD then had to take down a "wanted" web page that had made use of my photographs without my permission.

When the warrant was finally quashed, Judge Yolanda Northridge additionally ordered UCPD to turn over all known copies of my photographs that had been produced, hence the three folders, each with at least one set of color print-outs of my photographs. Note the one on the left includes the text "Must See." The paper on the right is the sworn declaration of all use and distribution of the photos by UCPD that the judge required UCPD to submit.

UCPD has not yet returned the final photograph I shot on December 11th, that of the first patrol car approaching the scene.


Indybay Journalist Files Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Against UC Police Department:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/13/18666480.php

Indybay Reporter Succeeds in Quashing UCPD Search Warrant:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/04/24/18645606.php

Eight Arrested at UC Berkeley After Concert & March: