{"id":50521,"date":"2025-11-17T23:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/50521\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:37:06","slug":"state-pilot-program-using-drones-to-thwart-school-shooters-coming-to-broward-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/50521\/","title":{"rendered":"State pilot program using drones to thwart school shooters coming to Broward County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM<\/p>\n<p>Broward Schools set to try state pilot program using drones to stop threats <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Using drones to stop school shooters is considered by some a radical idea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s coming to Broward Schools as part of a state pilot program. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s going to help our security,\u201d said Broward Schools Superintendent Howard Hepburn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Austin Texas is headquarters for the company that makes and operates the drones. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They\u2019ve been conducting test flights to turn the drones into first responders. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve seen it in person, in our own classrooms, the capability of these drones, said Hepburn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">How it works is schools would store the drones on campus, and once an alert comes in for an active shooter, they would be deployed and operated by the expert pilots in Austin, more than one thousand miles away from South Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The goal is to distract the shooter and buy time for police to navigate to them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cBeing able to have a birds eye view of what\u2019s going on in the hallway, classroom, (of the) potential shooter, things like that,\u201d said Hepburn.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Janine Stanwood\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/21e83aab-f6c0-4437-b3.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Janine Stanwood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Janine Stanwood is a Emmy award-winning reporter and anchor. She joined Local 10 News in February 2004 as an assignment editor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0November 17, 2025 at 6:19 PM Broward Schools set to try state pilot program using drones to stop&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-50521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}