Paparazzi Bill Gets Support From Powerhouse Actresses In California

The Paparazzi Bill gets two powerhouse names behind it in California when A-list actresses Halle Berry and Jennifer Garner came to testify about their horror stories with the photographers.

The actresses were testifying before the California State Assembly Committee on Public Safety in support of a proposed anti-paparazzi bill that would make it a crime for the pap to photograph children without their legal guardian’s permission.

Both Berry and Garner, have children and think the bill will protect their kids from being harassed at school or other locations where they are not present to protect them.

Jennifer Garner, who appears on the cover of Allure magazine testified, “I choose a public life. My three children are private citizens.”

The actress says that she doesn’t want to expose her kids to “a gang of shouting, arguing, lawbreaking photographers who camp out everywhere we are all day, every day, to continue traumatizing my kids.”

The paparazzi bill would help celebrity parents who want to keep their kids out of the spotlight to do so. Right now they have free rein and can photograph anywhere, anytime.

For her part, Berry, who was before the Committee in June, also told lawmakers about how the photographers hound her daughter while she’s at school.

Halley Berry, who is pregnant, told the panel that the photographers have asked her 5-year-old daughter, “How do you feel, Nahla? You may not see your father again. How do you feel about that?”

She added that this has made her daughter scared to go to school.

Garner was almost in tears as she told of how her and her kids are followed everywhere they go, school or the pediatrician.

Senate Bill 606, written by Sen. Kevin DeLeon of Los Angeles, would change the legal definition of harassment to include photographing or recording a child without the permission of a legal guardian.

Newspaper publishers have said they have concerns the paparazzi bill would prevent them from doing their job.