It was founded in 2007 following the arrest of its creator, Carlos Miller, a veteran news reporter and photojournalist, and incorporated in June 2014 as PINAC Inc., a Florida not-for-profit corporation.
[10] Police departments have harassed or made arrests of civilian photographers for charges such as obstruction[11] and making terror threats.
[12][13] PINAC has covered a number of cases during which police officers have misused wiretapping laws against civilians such as Anthony Graber in Maryland.
For example, in Broward County, an off-duty deputy sheriff pulled over a motorist, and then illegally seized and destroyed her cell phone in an attempt to get rid of the video that she had taken of police misconduct.
[23] The blog has been featured or discussed mainstream publications including Playboy, [24][25] The Washington Post,[16] The Boston Globe[26] and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel.