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    Response from Ken Roberts

    Just heard back from Ken Roberts, the chief librarian at the Hamilton
    Public Library. Ken argues that librarians have the unilateral ability
    to apply the intent of the photo policy on a case-by-case basis. The
    intent of the policy is to protect what Ken calls a "small but
    important" subset of the library's customers who do not wish to be
    photographed or may feel obligated to be photographed if asked by an
    authority figure.

    In response, I have suggested that it then makes sense that
    photographers wishing to photograph the building or non-identifiable
    people not bother with the form but begin shooting (that is, acting
    like parents with children). Then a librarian or security guard who is
    schooled in the policy and who has authority to apply the intent can
    make a call and, in fairness, should make it the same way they do now
    with parents. If photographers wish to shoot identifiable people then
    they should get a form the Library Board said would be more readily
    available.

    • 20 January 2011
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