\u201cDrones have been used to spy on protests, perfectly legal protests, and then afterwards people are coming home and finding law enforcement showing up at their doors,\u201d resident Shirley Lawson said.<\/p>\n
Lawson and other residents shared concerns about potential violations of the First<\/a>, Fourth<\/a>, Fifth<\/a> and 14th<\/a> amendments, which protect freedom of speech, privacy and due process.<\/p>\n Place 1 council member Maria Tu said new technology can help in cases that would otherwise rely on the memory of police officers or eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n \u201cI am a criminal defense lawyer. … Colleagues in the defense world are able to either negotiate dismissal, a reduction to the offense that\u2019s allegedly charged by the police officer or come to a resolution to a plea because it\u2019s so obvious that it has happened,\u201d she said. \u201cThose are important because it helps the city save money in trying every case in court.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cDrones have been used to spy on protests, perfectly legal protests, and then afterwards people are coming home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[19044,137351,4018,137350,137348,160,162,161,137347,137349,122303,137346],"class_list":["post-389756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-city-of-plano","tag-drone-first-responder-program-plano","tag-drones","tag-first-responder-drone-program-plano","tag-new-drone-program-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-surveillance","tag-police-drone-program-plano","tag-police-drones","tag-police-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}