Florida Bill To Halt Police Drone Spying
Steve Watson
Prisonplanet.com
Dec 7, 2012
A bill introduced by Florida State Sen. Joe Negron would severely limit the use of unmanned flying surveillance drones by police and other law enforcement agencies.
Negron’s “Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act”, Senate Bill 92, would create rules that would prohibit police from using drones that are capable of taking pictures and video in most situations.
“I am very opposed to making it a standard practice for the government to have drones floating in the sky, monitoring the lawful movements of Florida citizens,” Negron told reporters.
Negron said that he could see the potential for military use of the machines in combat zones, but believes they have no place flying over the heads of Americans.
“I’m not sure we would know they were being used,” Negron said. “A lot of these deployments are made in secrecy, and sometimes people found out they were being monitored months after the fact because this isn’t something that’s widely advertised.”
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