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takyon writes:

Photography Is Not A Crime (PINAC) reporter Charlie Grapski has been held under the Baker Act after having obtained permission to travel out of Florida to cover the situation in Ferguson, Missouri. Grapski, who is under probation after a campaign of exposing corruption in Alachua County, Florida, was asked to come back to the probation office and accused of making threats on Twitter.

"They told me I needed to fill out more paperwork, which should have been a red flag for me," he said in a telephone conversation from the Park Place Behavioral Healthcare facility in Kissimmee.

But as soon as he arrived, he was informed that his permission to travel out of the state was being revoked because he had been tweeting that he was flying to Ferguson to commit acts of violence, which is a complete lie. I see all his tweets on Facebook and that surely would have drawn my attention as well as the attention of his followers.

"When I asked her to show me the threats, she wouldn't," he said.

He said he left the office angry and sat in a car with his father outside the building to call his lawyer when a SWAT team arrived and arrested him, transporting him to the mental health facility under the Baker Act, which is a state law that allows up to 72 hours detainment of citizens if they show signs of mental illness along with signs they are a threat to themselves or others.

Grapski has recently made methodical public records requests in Albuquerque, NM, Ferguson, and St. Louis County, in order to expose violations of public records laws and other police wrongdoing, relating to the killing of James Boyd by Albuquerque Police and failures to produce an Incident Report for the shooting of Michael Brown.