This is the Kino Daily Podcast for Wednesday, September 28, 2016.

I'm Kila Brown.

Drones are just one way that governments can surveil citizens, and so far an alarming amount of suspicionless surveillance

has occurred without a warrant.

Jay Stanley is with the ACLU's Speech Privacy and Technology Project, We spoke yesterday.

What is the current state of law with respect to drones at state and federal level?

So it's a little bit of a wild west. at state and federal level?

So it's a little bit of a wild west, but there have been a number of states that have passed

drone regulations, most targeted at law enforcement, most involving warrant requirements.

There have been some that have targeted the private use of drones. We regard those mostly as unfortunate. They have First Amendment

implications in terms of being regulations of the photography that are not

based on safety regulation of where you can fly a drone.

And at the federal level there are some, there was a memorandum that the president circulated requiring

transparency by federal agencies but there's no real federal drone

law other than of course the mass of FAA safety regulations.

What have states done, like you mentioned that several states have passed regulations specifically targeting law enforcement

and warrant requirements.

What do many of those or most of those have in common about how they restrict police use of drones. They basically restrict the police from using drones for surveillance without a warrant.

Most of them have exceptions for emergencies, for things like search and rescue.

Some of them have exceptions for things like, you know,

forensic uses, crime scene and accident scene

photography.

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