On September 9, 2020, the Portland, Oregon City Council voted unanimously to ban the use of facial recognition technology by the city government, including the police department, following similar actions by the cities of Boston and San Francisco. According to one Council member, “[T]his technology just continues to exacerbate the over-criminalization of Black and brown
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City of Newton’s Drone Ordinance Overturned by Federal Judge
By Linn Foster Freedman & Guest Contributor on
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Last week, a federal judge in Massachusetts ruled that the City of Newton’s drone ordinance, which attempted to regulate drone flights in the airspace over Newton, Massachusetts could not be enforced by the municipality because it is pre-empted by federal law. In December of 2016, the city passed an ordinance that required drone operators to register their drones, banned unmanned drone flights under 400 feet, and banned flights over private and public property without permission from the landowner.
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