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Cleveland expands police drone use; officials emphasize public reporting and privacy limits
Summary
Deputy Chief Jared Shellotten told the safety committee the police drone program has executed about a dozen deployments, maintains a public flight-log for transparency, operates nine deployable drones (three additional training units) and does not use facial recognition; the city is piloting a first-responder drone at a fire station for shoreline and highway response.
Deputy Chief Jared Shellotten briefed the Cleveland safety committee on the police drone program and a separate public-safety first-responder pilot.
Shellotten said the division has completed about a dozen official deployments for large public events, crime-scene documentation and event support. All flights were described as "support tools" flown over publicly accessible areas; the deputy chief…
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