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Because I pass through it every day and have often been told to put away my camera, I got in touch with the folks at Union Station to have them clarify their policy on photos. As usual, the guards who told me to stop were flat-out wrong, though the station's photo policy is certainly vague enough to allow them to pretty much do anything they want.
The woman I talked to also said they are in the process of asking their security officers to carry the rules as a pocket card. Here's hoping that happens soon.
And here's the policy as she laid it out for me:
"Prohibited:
Use a camera tripod or take professional pictures in Union Station without the express written permission of Union Station Management. Union Station Management reserves the right to prohibit photography of any kind in their sole discretion except as described in the next paragraph
It is Amtrak policy to permit photography including news video in the public areas of Amtrak’s portion of Washington Union Station. This area is generally defined as the Amtrak ticket counters northward to the train departure gates. Amtrak’s Corporate Communications’ Department must arrange escorts for news media wishing access to train platforms."
Posted at 11:46AM, 14 February 2008 PDT
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Erin,
Good for you for looking into this. I have heard on this site several time about Union Station. I wonder if we challenged them to allow photography what would happen. Is Union Station publicly owned?? If it is we could use Silver Spring as an example.
Let's talk,
Chip Py
Posted 17 months ago.
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Hmmmmmmm Flash Mob union station perhaps...
Then Ellsworth Drive and finally Clinton Street in Baltimore...A bus tour of prohibited photography...
Posted 17 months ago.
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Interesting response from Union Station. So when I took a photo of the food court from the area between the Great Hall and the Amtrak counters, was the security guard within his right to ask me to put away the camera? Or was I in a gray area?
Whatever the case may be, I got the photo!
Posted 17 months ago.
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That's the exact area that I was wondering about, too! Because it's absolutely behind the Amtrak counters and within their boundaries, but that's also the spot I've heard the most complaints about.
I got the feeling from the woman I spoke with that she knows it's a problem, but I didn't get any sense of how much power she really had to do anything about it. I ended up being in touch with her after e-mailing a lot of the DC execs of the company that manages the non-Amtrak part of the building. (It's yet another one of those public building-private management issues.)
This line, right here, is the one I really want to try to have clarified:
"Management reserves the right to prohibit photography of any kind in their sole discretion."
Originally posted 17 months ago.
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erin m edited this topic 17 months ago.
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You mean the "CYA line?"
It's the same thing as that line in your job contract (for non-government types): "This qualifies as at-will employment. At any time, the organization can elect to relieve you of your duties for any reason."
Posted 17 months ago.
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