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Make it illegal to take pictures of children and/or faces in public places

Submitted on Sunday 9th November 2025

Rejected on Tuesday 9th December 2025

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Make it illegal to take pictures of children and/or faces in public places

Petition Details

To make illegal to take photos of children in public places that should be illegal, as of right now it is legal to take photos of children is completely legal

Additional Information

Me and my family went out Apex Park in Highbridge Somerset, I strange person took photos of my sister and other children with a camera and taking photos of children playing right up in there face, the police now have said that this is completely legal, How can a stranger taking photos of your child and/or children be legal? The law needs to change to take photos of children in public places, especially with children being bullied and harassed , let’s get this law changed to make this illegal!


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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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