Overview
- On the July 21 episode of the Shut Up Evan podcast, Garner described decades of aggressive paparazzi behavior that she says created real danger for her family and bystanders.
- She recounted photographers driving through red lights, crowding youth soccer fields, blocking a pediatrician's door and knocking over children outside preschool.
- Garner and Halle Berry testified to the California State Assembly Committee on Public Safety in 2013 and backed a law that increased penalties and civil remedies for photographing minors.
- Despite that law, Garner said two photographers have been assigned to follow her every day for more than 20 years and that she has a fraught, sometimes protective relationship with one longtime pap.
- Reporters and analysts point to industry incentives—selling archival images and waiting for newsworthy moments—as a structural reason why risky trailing persists and why enforcement and market changes will determine whether it stops.