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Senate committee hears bill to criminalize drone interference with wildfire and emergency response
Summary
Senate Bill 1125 would create felony penalties for using unmanned aircraft systems (drones) to interfere with wildfire suppression, law enforcement or emergency response. Committee members questioned the definition of “interfere” and discussed existing statutes and incidents; the public hearing was closed with no vote.
On March 12, the Senate Committee on Judiciary held a public hearing on Senate Bill 1125, a measure that would expand criminal penalties for people who use unmanned aircraft systems (commonly known as drones) to interfere with wildfire suppression, law enforcement or other emergency response efforts.
The bill’s introduced language creates a crime for knowingly, intentionally or recklessly causing death or serious physical injury by causing a drone to interfere with an emergency response; a dash-1 amendment discussed in the hearing would add penalties that include a Class C felony for causing interference and a Class B felony for causing property…
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