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Trustees direct staff to draft response on drone concerns and consider law-enforcement work session
Summary
After receiving a citizen letter about drone activity, trustees asked staff to draft a reply summarizing limited municipal authority over airspace and to consider a work session with law enforcement to clarify enforcement options under noise, privacy and harassment laws.
Trustees discussed a citizen correspondence raising concerns about drone flights over town. Staff and marshal's office representatives said municipal options are limited because airspace and drone operations implicate federal and state rules; enforcement often relies on applying existing noise, privacy or harassment laws rather than a specific municipal drone ordinance.
Chair proposed, and trustees agreed, that staff draft a letter on behalf of the board responding to the correspondent and outlining constraints and enforcement options. Trustees also expressed interest in holding a future work session with law enforcement to review how the marshal's office would respond to repeated drone complaints and whether any local ordinances could be drafted without infringing legal limits.
Marshal/staff representatives said drone complaints are infrequent locally and enforcement can be resource-intensive when the operator is not at the scene. Trustees asked staff to gather legal references for the next meeting.
