First Amendment? Not important.

Don't go to Long Beach to take photos.  They are "contacting" photographers, and apparently do not know, or will not say, when a "contact" becomes a "detainment."

"If an officer sees someone taking pictures of something like a refinery," says McDonnell, "it is incumbent upon the officer to make contact with the individual." McDonnell went on to say that whether said contact becomes detainment depends on the circumstances the officer encounters.

See, now that's just not true. Contact becomes detainment if you impede the contactee's movement or action.  Period.  I'm just a gummint cop, about as low on the totem pole as you can possibly get, and I know that.  I feel certain that this asshat knows that, too, he just doesn't want to admit that this is all QUITE illegal, along with morally repugnant.