In Grand Forks County, smile for the camera overhead
March 6, 2012 at 4:30 pm in Grand Forks Herald
As an ACLU writer put it, “the bottom line is that domestic drones are potentially extremely powerful surveillance tools, and that power like all government power needs to be subject to checks and balances.” Grand Forks County should enter the domestic UAS era with that in mind. Continue Reading
The Brossart case will be interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Antoine_Jones
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It may prove interesting, but I don’t see it as the same thing as U.S. v Jones.
Having an aircraft camera in the sky watching a stand-off with police that is taking place, is a lot different than fixing a GPS tracking device to a suspected criminal and downloading the activity in excess of 30 days. (If I remember the facts of the case correctly).
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Different, but a search warrant would have been easy to obtain and should have been.. That stand off went on for a long time. A search warrant can be obtained in less than an hour if needed.
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Maybe it’s because I don’t smoke joints. Or maybe it’s because I make a conscious effort to be a law abiding citizen. But I don’t understand why the Heraldo takes a position to limit the tools of law enforcement over the public’s safety. I’m sorry but you didn’t make a strong enough case for me to fear an eye in the sky that could shut down a drug dealer, or catch an escaped convict hiding in a corn field.
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Problem is, where does it stop? I’m always wary of an “ends justifies the means” argument.
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It starts when there is probable cause and ends when there isn’t probable cause.
Switching gears; how is the use of drones aiding in the capture of a suspect different than having a cop flying in a Cessna timimg speeders on the highway?
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If they have probably cause, they can GET A WARRANT.
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…and the cop in the helicopter can be required to show up in court, and be cross-examined.
The remote operator and the technicians that service the cameras are unlikely to be cross-examined by the defense.
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Patroling public roads it certainly possible, use in search and rescue yes. But using this tech for criminal servalence should require a search warrant be obtained.
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