Lawfare: Did a Government Drone Flight Over a Protest Violate the Fourth Amendment?

Lawfare: Did a Government Drone Flight Over a Protest Violate the Fourth Amendment? by Nathaniel Sobel (“On May 28, protestors in Minneapolis demonstrated late into the night against the killing of George Floyd and police brutality. The next day, on Twitter, Jason Paladino of the Project on Government Oversight noticed a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) drone was flying over the city. According to open-source data, as reported by Gizmodo, the drone took off from an Air Force base in Grand Forks, North Dakota, at around 10:10 a.m. At 11:47 a.m., the drone reached Minneapolis, where it entered a ‘hexagon-shaped holding pattern at 20,000 feet over the city.’ About an hour and a half later, around 1:15 p.m., it began its return to Grand Forks.”)

How? Dow Chemical Co. v. United States, 476 U.S. 227 (1986) (aerial photography from 2,000′ of a factory violated no reasonable expectation of privacy).

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