Re: [cobirds] Coors Ponds security (Jefferson) No RNGR or LTDU

Bob and all - 

The law is quite clear.  Entities such as Coors may query you with regards to your activities, but standing on McIntyre (a public road) and taking pictures of the "Coors Ponds" is completely within your rights.  

https://www.clickinmoms.com/blog/street-photography-and-the-law-7-things-you-need-to-know/  (this is just one source of information, the Department of Justice supports this right).

I would politely invite them to call the JeffCo Sheriff's office and have an officer explain the law to them (all the while continuing to look at and photograph the birds).  I suspect the Coors Company lawyers would be appalled at their security folks' behavior.

Kathy Mihm Dunning

Denver

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 5:03 PM, W. Robert Shade III <wrshade3@gmail.com> wrote:

I too was questioned by Coors Company security. I was standing outside the fence (of course!) on the west side scoping the lake for Red-necked Grebe and Long-tailed Duck and found neither. Two drake Red-breasted Mergansers and four Ruddy Ducks. I had only been there fifteen minutes or less when the security truck stopped. She was nice enough but I was informed that this is private property and that Coors does not want people taking photographs. I assured her that all I had were binoculars and scope (thinking "Don't you know the difference?"). All birds were way too far away for the camera and lens in my car anyway. 

So two points:

1. If you go there best not to have a camera in view.

2. Is it legal to prevent photography of private land that is visible from public property? Does Coors Security really have jurisdiction over people on public property or are they just trying to intimidate us? What are they worried about? That some ISIS ninjas will blow up the pond? 

Bob Shade

Lakewood

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