Give them an inch they usually take a mile. Sonoma County licensed a drone surveillance program to weed out unlawful hashish farms. A lawsuit alleges the County is conducting warrantless searches for code violations and spying on residents.
The North Bay county of Sonoma initially began the 6-year-old drone program to trace unlawful hashish cultivation, however the lawsuit alleges that officers have since turned it right into a widespread program to catch unrelated code violations at residential properties and levy thousands and thousands of {dollars} in fines.
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