[az_gila]

Public view is public view and you can’t stop people from taking pictures of people, events or things that are in the public view. Many of these plane spotters are serious people and with zoom lenses that are powerful. And I’d like to see a unilateral call for no photos be enforced on those outside the wire. Not going to happen. On a base, yes, but still, can’t stop them if they are outside the wire, regardless.

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The reports seem to indicate that it was at Cutter Aviation. If so there is not much “trough the fence” plane spotter view.

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.4256534,-112.0228943,421m/data=!3m1!1e3

[Hulka]

If private field they can decide to take photos or not by themselves. They are not bound by some federal agent that has no authority over the field.

If public field, federal agents have no unilateral authority either.

The airport manager could act on his own discretion to follow of not follow federal agent directive about photos.

To presume federal agents have unilateral power to ban photos of something happening in plain view is something I can’t see as a legitimate use of power—and it is not either.