Galveston County Daily news photographer Kevin Cox was detained for 45 minutes by authorities for photographing the scene of a Texas City, TX refinery spill. Cox, who refused to show his images to the authorities when asked, was photographing the scene from a public roadway. Though Cox had moved to a grassy unmarked field, owned by Marathon Oil, to take shots from a better vantage point, he vacated the field once he was asked to do so by Marathon security personnel. The rest of the story here:

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