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In a recent open letter to congressional leaders, a coalition of 16 law enforcement and corrections agencies is asking lawmakers to give state and large municipal police agencies the authority to conduct counter-UAS operations, including bringing down drones electronically.
“State and local law enforcement and corrections agencies should be granted authority to detect, track, identify and mitigate drones that threaten public safety,” states the letter. The coalition sent the document to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer.
The coalition members urged Congress “to establish a comprehensive, permanent counter-UAS framework that empowers trained local and state public safety personnel to detect, track and when necessary, safely mitigate unlawful drone activity.”
Currently, a number of bills are pending before Congress to give state, local, tribal and territorial law enforcement agencies greater authority to detect, identify and in some cases mitigate drones that are operating in ways that threaten public safety and security. Under federal law and FAA regulations, only a handful of federal law enforcement and national security agencies currently have such authority.
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