Houston health policy director suggests taking camera phone photos for anti-smoking ban

According to Alain Reiter's Camera Phone Report, "Houston's mayoral health policy director, Elena Marks, suggests that consumers who would see people breaking a proposed anti-smoking measure could take camera phone photos for evidence". [via The Houston Chronicle].

... "As the city does not have the resources to create a so-called smoking police, Marks suggests that offended patrons could file municipal complaints on smoking violators if they gather some evidence, such as camera-phone photos and the identity of the person. "We're not encouraging people to tackle someone and get their ID and photocopy it," she notes. "It's going to depend very much on people wanting to follow the law."

emily | 4:38 PM | Camphone snapshots nab criminals |
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