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Resolution bans all municipal agencies from buying or leasing drones
February 5, 2013 RSS Feed Print
A statue of Thomas Jefferson overlooks the Charlottesville, Va., campus of the University of Virginia.
Charlottesville, Va., has become the first city in the United States to formally pass an anti-drone resolution.
The resolution, passed Monday, "calls on the United States Congress
and the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia to adopt
legislation prohibiting information obtained from the domestic use of
drones from being introduced into a Federal or State court," and
"pledges to abstain from similar uses with city-owned, leased, or
borrowed drones."
The resolution passed by a 3-2 vote and was brought to the city
council by activist David Swanson and the Rutherford Institute, a civil
liberties group based in the city. The measure also endorses a proposed
two-year moratorium on drones in Virginia.
Councilmember Dede Smith, who voted in favor of the bill, says that
drones are "pretty clearly a threat to our constitutional right to
privacy."
"If we don't get out ahead of it to establish some guidelines for how
drones are used, they will be used in a very invasive way and we'll be
left to try and pick up the pieces," she says.
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