Word from Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed that charges will be dropped against two student journalists and an intern for Creative Loafing who were all arrested last November while photographing and recording Occupy Atlanta protests. I hope SPJ’s letter, along with letters from other journalism organizations, may have played a small part in this outcome.

This entry was posted by Sonny Albarado, 2012-13 SPJ President on Monday, October 15th, 2012 at 10:03 pm and is filed under Advocacy, First Amendment, Government relations, SPJ. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.