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Government drones used in ‘runaway spying operation’ to peek into backyards in Sonoma County, lawsuit says
Three residents filed a lawsuit this week against Sonoma County seeking to block code enforcement from using drones to take ...
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ACLU sues Sonoma County over use of drone surveillance for code enforcement
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of three Sonoma County residents, contends the county’s drone use violates the California ...
California county accused of using drones to spy on residents
Sonoma County has been accused of deploying hundreds of drone flights over residents in a “runaway spying operation” that has ...
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Government drones used in 'runaway spying operation' to peek into backyards in Sonoma County, lawsuit says
Three residents filed a lawsuit this week against Sonoma County seeking to block code enforcement from using drones to take aerial images of their homes in what the American Civil Liberties Union ...
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California's Sonoma County sued for illegal mass surveillance
Give them an inch and they take a mile. Sonoma County authorized a drone surveillance program to weed out illegal cannabis ...
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ACLU sues Sonoma County, alleges illegal drone surveillance program
Sonoma County's Code Enforcement Division was today named in an ACLU lawsuit alleging the department has been using ...
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ACLU sues Sonoma County over use of drone surveillance for code enforcement
Since 2019, code enforcement officers from the county agency Permit Sonoma have used drones more than 700 times producing at least 5,600 images, according to the legal filing. The plaintiffs ...
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ACLU sues Sonoma County, alleges illegal drone surveillance program
The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against Sonoma County Code Enforcement Division alleging the department has been conducting a warrantless surveillance program on county residents. Multiple residents ...