Uso de drones por cuerpos públicos en Virginia: requisitos y limitaciones

Explicación Simple

En Virginia, la policía necesita un permiso especial para usar drones para buscar a alguien o planear un arresto. Sin este permiso, no pueden usar la información que obtengan con el drone en un juicio.

Es como si un maestro necesitara un permiso para revisar tu mochila. Si no lo tiene y encuentra algo, no puede usarlo para castigarte.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que la policía de la ciudad está buscando a Juan, quien se escapó después de un robo. Si quieren usar un drone para ver la casa de Juan y no tienen un permiso, cualquier cosa que vean no puede ser usada en su contra en la corte.

Penalidades

Las pruebas obtenidas ilegalmente no son admisibles en juicio.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

(ix) by a law-enforcement officer or an employee of a law-enforcement agency to (a) aerially survey a primary residence of the subject of the arrest warrant to formulate a plan to execute an existing arrest warrant or capias for a felony offense or (b) locate a person sought for arrest when such person has fled from a law-enforcement officer and a law-enforcement officer remains in hot pursuit of such person; or (x) by a law-enforcement officer investigating unmanned aircraft systems surrounding or over property of the federal or state government, public critical infrastructure as defined in § 44-146.28:2 , or nongovernment-operated prison or jail facilities. D. The warrant requirements of this section shall not apply when such systems are utilized to support the Commonwealth or any locality for purposes other than law enforcement, including damage assessment, traffic assessment, flood stage assessment, and wildfire assessment. Nothing herein shall prohibit use of unmanned aircraft systems for private, commercial, or recreational use or solely for research and development purposes by institutions of higher education and other research organizations or institutions. E. Evidence obtained through the utilization of an unmanned aircraft system in violation of this section is not admissible in any criminal or civil proceeding. F. In no case may a weaponized unmanned aircraft system be deployed in the Commonwealth or its use facilitated in the Commonwealth by a state or local government department, agency, or instrumentality or department of law enforcement in the Commonwealth except in operations at the Space Port and Naval/Aegis facilities at Wallops Island. No weaponized unmanned aircraft systems shall be construed to include such systems designed and used for the purpose