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- From: Kevin.Agard@f94.n343.z1.fidonet.org (Kevin Agard)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: PHOOGRAPERS ON SCENE.
- Message-ID: <721252273.F00043@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 14:43:00 GMT
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- To: af905@yfn.ysu.edu (Ed Shanks)
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- ES>>What would you do if you were working at a MVA and the press
- >>photographer got between you and the patient and started taking
- >>pix? Think about the scene and what may be exposed. AND the
- >>photographer would not get out of your way. Do you have the
- >>right to push him out of the way in a life or death situation?
- >>When he interferes with your patient and the pt.'s stability do
- >>you have the right to have him arrested if he won't leave any
- >>other way?
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- It depends upon your state laws. In NY interferring with EMS personnel
- in the performance can be charged with "OGA" - Obstructing Governmental
- Administration.
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- NJ has similar laws. You need to check with your department and local
- law enforcement.
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- As for you hypothetical reporter..... I probably would have thrown him
- out of the way and then had him locked up..
-
- regards
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- KMA
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