Law enforcement could use drones to monitor large crowds for safety and security, but the unmanned devices couldn’t be equipped to fire on crowds, under a proposal filed Thursday by Sen. Darryl Rouson, D- Tampa.
Rouson’s proposal (SB 132) creates an exemption to state law so that drones could be used to monitor large-scale events – defined in the bill as comprised of more than 10 people – for evaluating crowd size, assessing public-safety vulnerabilities, determining staffing levels for public-safety personnel or identifying possible criminal activity …
NWFDailyNews.com | Dec. 8, 2018
