Federal Judge Robert Pitman struck down Texas’ drone photography law, ruling it violates the First Amendment. The law prevented journalists from gathering news. As attorney Jim Hemphill, an FOI Foundation of Texas board member, explains in this article by Alicia Calzada, the decision confirms drone photography is “an integral tool in 21st-Century journalism.”

Read Calzada’s full article here, published by the National Press Photographers Association, the plaintiff in the lawsuit.