So this morning a man taking photos of me

HWG

He's perfectly entitled to take photos in the public domain.

You trespassed, possibly performed an unsafe maneuver or even damaged private property, all in public and in broad daylight... and you think you're the innocent party here?

If you don't want your child to be photographed in that manner then it's easy - don't break the law with him in the passenger seat!

LandyAndy

It would be a great defence to a speeding ticket. 'You aren't allowed to take a picture of my vehicle. I have a child in it'

sevenhills

landman17 wrote: »

I couldn’t turn in the designated road space so mounted this grass area to turn so I could park. To be met by a man taking pics of my van and it’s occupants, that being myself and my 5 year old son.

It would only be a safe-guarding issue if photos were being just taken of children; it sounds like he was photographing your van.

You will get the correct advise, if you are truthful.

Iceweasel

A blue badge does not give you carte-blanche to park on double yellows if there are additional restrictions such as school entrances.

Nor does it allow you to drive on grass.

It seems to me that all that happened was someone took pics of you breaking the law.

I think you need to review and change your driving habits on your school run.

unforeseen

I don't want to worry the OP but some councils are actually setting up CCTV systems outside schools to capture this action and issue penalty notices against inconsiderate school run drivers. The trend appears to be growing also

Car_54

ringo_24601 wrote: »

It is a safeguarding issue in general, if he's photographing children near a school. Yes, it's legal, since it's in a public place, but there are certainly issues. I'd argue it is a bit of a worry if he's documenting children going in and out of school.

You could always phone 101 and report it to the police if the school isn't interested.

What exactly are these "issues"?

There is no law against taking photos of anyone in a public place, adult or child. The owner of the land is entitled to prohibit photography, but that is a civil matter, not one for the policec.

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Car_54 wrote: »

What exactly are these "issues"?

There is no law against taking photos of anyone in a public place, adult or child. The owner of the land is entitled to prohibit photography, but that is a civil matter, not one for the policec.

It's similar to why some schools allow photos, and some don't. There may be children who are effectively in hiding from a member of the family (e.g. an abusive one) and have moved areas from them. It's also why you should be careful about sharing 'missing child' posts within social media.

I'm fully aware that photography is legal when in public areas, but there are legitimate concerns sometimes about how those photos are used and shared.

My kids's school has a proper car-park and a drop off system so we don't have any of these problems.. but then again it also has 3 security guards, perimeter security gates, CCTV and bomb proof outer windows. The next step is to get some concrete barriers near the main gate to prevent ramming threats. Anyone photographing cars would be frogmarched away from the area.

caprikid1

I'd be more concerned about the dangers of people driving vans around on grass verges etc and the risk of children / parents getting knocked over by such inconsiderate driving.






What is it when someone is clearly in the wrong they cannot just stick their hand up and admit they were in the wrong and have to trot out this kind of safe guarding nonsense.


I would be really interested to see the road layout that requires this sort of extremely poor driving.
Its about time everyone started taking responsibility for their actions and stop trying to divert the issue .

Aylesbury_Duck

unforeseen wrote: »

I don't want to worry the OP but some councils are actually setting up CCTV systems outside schools to capture this action and issue penalty notices against inconsiderate school run drivers. The trend appears to be growing also

Good. Aside from the mess and damage they create, sooner or later a child will get hurt or worse. Then there will be much hand-wringing from parents about how the school, council, in fact anyone except them, is responsible.

One of our local schools has devised a one-way drop-off/collect loop. Coupled with time-restricted single yellow lines on the surrounding roads, you'd think it presented a reasonable solution, but no, every day there is always one selfish idiot who parks with their engine running for a few minutes blocking everyone else whilst their kid goes back to retrieve their lunch box, PE kit or whatever. That then encourages impatient parents to mount the path to get past. There has already been one minor accident between cars and of course it developed into a slanging match outside the school. The kids have the school's values of tolerance, respect, patience and so on built in to their lessons and assemblies then see it all fly out of the window at the end of the day when the parents arrive and act like imbeciles.

The US has the "right to bear arms". In the UK we seem to have developed our own "right to park", however and wherever we like and with no thought of the consequences.

LandyAndy

Hmm. OP registers today, starts thread and immediately logs off.


I know what that makes me think, especially with the posting style and content.