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Posted inCriminal Justice, Government & Politics, Investigations

City cancels plans for Super Bowl drone despite enthusiasm and interest from NOPD, others

A month after The Lens began asking questions about city officials’ plans to use a U.S. Homeland Security Department aerial drone to monitor Super Bowl crowds, a spokesman for Mayor Mitch Landrieu said today that the city is scrapping those plans. Spokesman Ryan Berni offered no reason for dropping the eye-in-the-sky technology, telling a reporter […]