Tag Archives: Cathy’s Law

Massachusetts lawmakers are considering a bill to criminalize phototaking by first responders. One of the advocates of the law, Michelle Mathieson, is the mother of a woman who was murdered in 2011. Local police officers took and shared cellphone images of her body.

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A Connecticut firefighter has been charged with violating a state law that makes it a crime for first responders to take photos of victims at emergency scenes. Steven Frischling, 45, the public information officer for the Chesterfield Fire Company, was arrested Tuesday.

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The New York Post ran an expose Sunday about the apparent widespread practice by FDNY EMTs of taking emergency scene pictures of patients and posting them in the social media. The article lists example after example of outrageous behavior and ...

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The State of New Jersey has finally pulled the trigger on Cathy’s Law, joining the state of Connecticut by formally criminalizing the (a) taking or (b) dissemination of emergency scene photos depicting a patient by emergency responders. Cathy’s Law was ...

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