county attorney appointment and drone legal questions

2:36:21Um anything on the books office? Yes, sir. County Attorney?

2:36:25Um I just need you to appoint me to the Pasco County Consolidated Justice Information Board. Currently the Mr. Steinsnyder's the appointment, so if you could just appoint me to that board, please.

2:36:36Do you want to be on that board, County Attorney?

2:36:39Um I've been told I have to be.

2:36:42He didn't answer yes or no, like an attorney. I'll make a motion to appoint uh

2:36:47the sieges board.

2:36:49Oh sieges, yes.

2:36:51Sieges

2:36:51board to appoint uh

2:36:53siege whatever it's called

2:36:54attorney Goldstein to the C just Sieges Board. Second. All

2:36:58in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Unanimously set up.

2:37:02Thank you.

2:37:03You look and got more to excited.

2:37:06Can't wait.

2:37:08Okay. Um I don't have anything further, but I I do think that um I talked to the county attorney, it was a question asked about the citizen about as far as the use of drones. Um are they take a break legal? Do they violate Florida Statute? And do you want to talk about that a little bit, David?

2:37:27I think that there is a statute that governs drones and there are they certainly can be used legally. I mean there there are restrictions on the use of drones. There even for a law enforcement agency there are limits on to which a law enforcement agency can use drones. You cannot they cannot use them um to survey private property without a warrant, but they can get a warrant even to survey private property. There's exceptions. They can use them for traffic

2:37:58enforcement. There's certain emergency situations they can use them. They can use them to search for missing persons. Sometimes if there's an escape, somebody escapes from prison, they can use them for that purpose. So there are exceptions where they can be used, but there are also limits to which they can be used. But the question I was asked is, is it legal for a law enforcement agency to use a drone? The answer is Yes with limitations.

2:38:28But they have a limitation. No different than an airplane following the interstate pulling people over.

2:38:32But it's the same thing for the county. The county the county We have county departments that use drones and we have limits to which we can use those drones as well. I mean, so we can use them for certain emergency purposes and for traffic purposes and we can't use them to survey somebody's private property either.

2:38:53Yes, the property praiser one eighth of an inch.

2:38:55But that's one of the exceptions, is the property appraiser is allowed to use them for property appraiser.

2:39:00code could use it.

2:39:01So the property appraiser is allowed to use them for for appraisal purposes? But that all of the exceptions are in the statute. So th the question was that came to me is are they all legal? And yes, as long as you follow the limitations of the statute. But you can't exceed the limitations of the statute because that would be considered a violation of of privacy.

2:39:24Well every realtor uses drones and they'll pick up every house in the neighborhood when they fly that thing up there. Farmers use drones

2:39:32now.

2:39:33And share 'em. People go to our county parks to film their good time or film boats up on water. Using their own personal drones. So the public's gonna have more freedom to Go look around on other people than law enforcement. Well keep keep an eye. That's what I'm trying to do.

2:39:52And Walmart is gonna be delivering by drone.

2:39:55Well to be clear, the statute's regulating primarily the government's use of of surveilling property. So um it's not really addressing private use. Although we're we're

2:40:11We're s we're basically preempted. I mean that's that's something that the state and federal government regulate. We don't typically regulate that issue.

2:40:20So one of the things that, you know, whether it be Flock, Axon, or the new one, SkyDio, is the hacking part where the information goes once it's up. Done from a uh remote command software. And if it can be hacked into, it may not be intentionally done that way. But if that information's out there and people are hacking into it, it's a concern of mine. So I think as we look at these items down the road, especially if if

2:40:50we're funding them or or whatever the case may be, that we do do our due diligence, and maybe Todd Bailey needs to look into this one here a little bit. He looked at the other ones, Flock, found out there were ways for vulnerabilities. I think this one here should get looked at as well.

2:41:02We can certainly do that. I know Chase is here if the board wants to hear the Sheriff Office perspective, but uh certainly we can look into the data the data side of the equation.