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Border-patrol drones being borrowed by other agencies more often than previously known
By Craig Whitlock and Craig Timberg, Published: January 14 E-mail the writers


Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies are increasingly borrowing border-patrol drones for domestic surveillance operations, newly released records show, a harbinger of what is expected to become the commonplace use of unmanned aircraft by police.

Customs and Border Protection, which has the largest U.S. drone fleet of its kind outside the Defense Department, flew nearly 700 such surveillance missions on behalf of other agencies from 2010 to 2012, according to flight logs released recently in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil-liberties group...................>>>>...............>>>>....................http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....4_story.html?hpid=z1

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Drones over my property will be used for target practice.

How will a person know if it is a police drone or a criminal drone.

because the criminals will have to register under the 'safe drone act'....