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Inspector General issues drone-policy recommendations and reports stalled audit requests from OPD
Summary
The Office of Inspector General reviewed OPD's drone policy (DGO I-25) and recommended clearer purpose language, explicit metadata retention rules, access procedures for defendants and audit logs, and public reporting of deployments. The IG also said an audit of inactive NSA tasks is delayed because OPD has not provided requested materials.
Inspector General Zirvan Malouf and Deputy Inspector General Charlotte Jones presented the OIG's policy assessment of OPD's unmanned aerial systems policy (DGO I-25), and outlined four recommendations and four considerations the office believes will increase transparency and protect privacy.
Key recommendations included adding a clear purpose statement to the policy, explicitly addressing metadata retention (the policy currently says video will be deleted after five days but does not reference associated metadata), clarifying whether criminal defendants and civil litigants…
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