SFist Photo: No Photos Permitted. Really?

Here's the scene from the sidewalk of Lombard Street: "TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OF STUDENTS IS PROHIBITED." We can understand how parents and other people at the school could be irked by shutterbugs, especially since the well-trafficked curlicue part of Lombard is nearby. But it seems the sign is suggesting that photography is prohibited by force of law. Is that right? Some big buildings in San Francisco's Financial District have gone down that road until getting straightened out by the Boing Boing. On the other hand readers of The Photographer's Right might be led astray if they think they are on a regular public sidewalk but are actually on private land. Is it possible that photography is actually prohibited on this public sidewalk in Russian Hill? Mmmmm.

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