Phoenix Park Ranger Carlos Sotomayor Sued

It sounds like Philip Bradstock is stonewalling me.

This redacted email which Philip Bradstock gave me has absolutely nothing in it.

Right now I don't know if this redacted email meets the requirements for "attorney client" privilege as Philip Bradstock says, of if Philip Bradstock is stonewalling me and is just using this as a lame excuse to violate the Arizona Public Record laws and not give me the data I requested.

The redacted email is from Philip Bradstock in the city of Phoenix Film Department to Mary Grier in the city of Phoenix legal department.

I asked Philip Bradstock for a copy of the law that Park Ranger Carlos Sotomayor ordered us to stop shooting photos under.

It turns out there is no such law.

It appears that this is an imaginary law the government bureaucrats in the city of Phoenix made up so they could shake down people for a $100 photo permit.

Philip Bradstock first told me that the Phoenix law G-1403 made it illegal to shoot photos in city parks.

I read thru the who G-1403 law and it didn't contain a word about shooting still, static photos. G-1403 does require people shooting motion pictures or television productions in Phoenix parks to get a permit, but doesn't say a word about a permit being required to shoot still, static photos.

When I told Philip Bradstock that G-1403 doesn't contain a word about requiring a permit for static, still photos and that it only addresses motion pictures and television productions he gave me a line of BS and said that since the law allows his department to set rules and regulation on the filming of motion picture and television productions that they can "redefine" the law to include requiring people that shoot static still photos to also get a permit.

If you ask me that is 100 percent BS.

Philip Bradstock later gave me this Administrative Regulation 5.42 in which the city manager on October 1, 2008 proclaimed that Phoenix city code G-1403 also allowed them to require permits for still photography.