WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY UPDATE: You Can Photograph That Federal Building. “The right of photographers to stand in a public place and take pictures of federal buildings has been upheld by a legal settlement reached in New York. . . . The settlement, filed on Friday, ended a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security by Antonio Musumeci, 29, of Edgewater, N.J. He was arrested Nov. 9, 2009, as he videotaped a demonstrator in front of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse at 500 Pearl Street. His principal camera was confiscated but he recorded the encounter on a second camera. On two later occasions, he was also threatened with arrest.”

Full text of the settlement agreement is here.