This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, November 24, 2015.

I'm Caleb Brown.

How Police Use Drones Should Be on the Agendas of every state legislature in America next year.

The new technology poses both risks and benefits for the public.

Connor Boyak is president of the Libertas Institute in Utah.

We spoke at the State Policy Network's annual meeting in October.

Technology is allowing cops to have all manner of ability to violate rights in ways that they couldn't do it before.

So how was Utah dealing with the proliferation of law enforcement drones?

So in early 2014 our organization

Labertus Institute together with the ACLU of Utah passed comprehensive

legislation on this issue trying to really stay ahead of it in Utah it hasn't become a huge

issue really no law enforcement agencies were yet utilizing these to any significant

degree but we wanted to stay ahead.

And so we enacted pretty restrictive requirements

on law enforcement who wish to use drones,

basically so that they have to get a warrant.

I mean that's really in a nutshell because of the privacy and surveillance implications of these devices,

especially with how small some of them can be.

People can be surveilled and not even know if the drone is as small as

a mosquito for example so we want to make sure a judge is aware and signing off on it.

What prompted that?

So in Utah there's actually been a very significant criminal justice and civil liberties appetite in the past few years.

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