Yesterday I had the opportunity to testify before the Connecticut State Legislature’s Judiciary Committee on Connecticut’s proposed drone bill HB-5217, entitled, “An Act Concerning Use Of Unmanned Aircraft.”

In my opinion, even the necessary portion of the bill, (the search warrant requirement), in its current draft is entirely unworkable.

Another portion is an unnecessary attempt to add “with a drone” to perfectly adequate, existing criminal statutes that already cover crimes committed with a drone.

The final portion would attempt to regulate that which the federal government’s exclusive jurisdiction would preempt.

Here is a copy of the proposed bill:

Here is a written summary of my testimony:

And here is the question and answer portion of my testimony, which can be view at the link below by fast-forwarding to 5:52:18 of the following CT-N hearing footage:

Link to video: http://ct-n.com/ctnplayer.asp?odID=9967