Some San Pablo Residents Uneasy As Police Unveil High-Tech, Long Flying Drone<\/a><\/p>\nMonajemi said the drones have been proven to aid in lifesaving situations, but rules need to be defined to prevent an invasion of privacy.<\/p>\n
At the April city council meeting when the drones were first presented, a couple of residents and city council members expressed their concerns over privacy issues, such as how far the drones would be used and how the video would be collected and stored.<\/p>\n
Police said they\u2019re aware of the concerns and insisted they would adopt rules that the American Civil Liberties Union has suggested, including prohibiting the use of the drones for random surveillance.<\/p>\n
Dave Wang, a Mountain View resident, said he supports the drones because the pros outweigh the cons.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think, in general, I\u2019m certainly supportive of drones, I think we need to be mindful of certainly privacy,\u201d Wang said. \u201cI think the benefits and the potential benefits across the board from housing inspections, the efficiencies gained, saving lives, I\u2019m a big, big believer in the pro category as long we\u2019re mindful of the privacy issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
The meeting is Thursday, Aug. 15, from 7-9 p.m. at 1000 Villa St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MOUNTAIN VIEW (KPIX 5) \u2014 Mountain View residents will soon get to weigh in on whether they think the city\u2019s fire, police and public works departments should use drones for city business.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese drones have saved lives when people go missing out in the woods, in certain wildfire situations,\u201d said Armin Monajemi who is a chief drone pilot at a Bay Area start up. \u201cUsing drones, you could easily see someone\u2019s backyard; and the laws, the way they\u2019ve been written in the past, we didn\u2019t have drones, we didn\u2019t have aerial imagery.\u201d<\/p>\n
During a presentation to the city council earlier this year, the police staff said the drones could help them with suspect or missing persons searches, as well as measure accident scenes. The fire department wants to use them during fires, mass casualty and hazmat incidents and natural disasters.<\/p>\n
The public works department also said the drones could benefit them for roof, gutter and tree inspections, as well as environmental assessments.<\/p>\n
If passed, Mountain Vie..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdpair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}