Ladies and Gents
I would like to present it to you, the tax paying citizenry, a scenario which could play out with your local municipality as it may already have elsewhere.
A city could have a drone that is jointly used by FD and PD. Might be it's all legal with the FAA and upnto date with all the paperwork. It is kept at the fire Dept mostly but occasionally used by police... mostly for lost dementia patients or little kids. The drone cost a third of the gross national product with multiple cameras that are latest greatest... thermal and the like that can read the serial number off a dollar bill from across a football field. It is held under those sort of pretenses.
So maybe it happens one day that an FD drone operator is asked to fly the drone over a property that has had some calls for service that arent necessarily related specifically to the fire department for the sole purpose of gathering intelligence/recon.
Without more on the books regarding case law what are the implications or legal ramifications? Does anyone see moral or ethical issues with doing these sorts of operations? What If it were realized that this was becoming accepted practice and other sorties had been flown for the purpose of surveillance on an individual?
Your thoughts....
I would like to present it to you, the tax paying citizenry, a scenario which could play out with your local municipality as it may already have elsewhere.
A city could have a drone that is jointly used by FD and PD. Might be it's all legal with the FAA and upnto date with all the paperwork. It is kept at the fire Dept mostly but occasionally used by police... mostly for lost dementia patients or little kids. The drone cost a third of the gross national product with multiple cameras that are latest greatest... thermal and the like that can read the serial number off a dollar bill from across a football field. It is held under those sort of pretenses.
So maybe it happens one day that an FD drone operator is asked to fly the drone over a property that has had some calls for service that arent necessarily related specifically to the fire department for the sole purpose of gathering intelligence/recon.
Without more on the books regarding case law what are the implications or legal ramifications? Does anyone see moral or ethical issues with doing these sorts of operations? What If it were realized that this was becoming accepted practice and other sorties had been flown for the purpose of surveillance on an individual?
Your thoughts....