California's Sonoma County sued for illegal mass surveillance
Give them an inch and they take a mile. Sonoma County authorized a drone surveillance program to weed out illegal cannabis farms. A lawsuit alleges the County is conducting warrantless searches for code violations and spying on residents.
The North Bay county of Sonoma initially started the 6-year-old drone program to track illegal cannabis cultivation, but the lawsuit alleges that officials have since turned it into a widespread program to catch unrelated code violations at residential properties and levy millions of dollars in fines.
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