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Rules Committee adopts amended SFPD drone-use policy and sends it to full board
Summary
The Rules Committee approved amendments to the San Francisco Police DepartmentUAS (drone) policy adding prohibitions on First Amendment infringements, weapons, and force usage, and added data-retention limits; the committee forwarded the item to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation.
The Rules Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Sept. 16 to accept amendments to the San Francisco Police Departments policy governing unassisted aerial systems (UAS), commonly called drones, and sent the item to the full board with a positive recommendation.
The committee accepted proposed prohibitions that, as read by a San Francisco Police Department representative, would bar department-owned UASs from being used to "infringe on the lawful exercise of rights protected by the First Amendment," from serving non-law-enforcement purposes, from being equipped with weapons, and from being used as a…
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