# News Source Record

**L-Ne / Open-source news extract** — Original media coverage of unmanned aerial systems.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Collection date | 13 January 2011 |
| Platform | Quiet Systems |
| Data label | Open-source news record // LRRK collection product |
| Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. |
| Scale | National |
| Language | English |
| Terms matched | drones; unmanned aircraft; unmanned aerial vehicles; UAVs; drone |

## Bibliographic

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Outlet | USA Today |
| Title | Police turn to drones for domestic surveillance |
| Dateline | — |
| First publisher | yes |
| Original URL | https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/surveillance/2011-01-13-drones_N.htm |
| Archive URL | — |
| Dedup key | 2011-01-13|usa-today|police-uav-faa-coa-miami-houston |
| Source grade | A1 |

## Record

**Verified extract — [Fact — A1]** Larry Copeland reported that US police agencies were pressing the FAA for wider use of UAVs, a demand experts at New Mexico State University and Auburn University said was driven largely by returning veterans. Suggested uses: find lost children, hunt illegal marijuana, ease hurricane-evacuation traffic. FAA spokesman Les Dorr said the agency expected this year to propose new rules for smaller unmanned aircraft with public input, and was talking with the Justice Department and national law-enforcement groups about streamlining certificates of authorization. Drones had flown in the USA for several years but only in restricted airspace and on the Canada and Mexico borders. NMSU's Doug Davis said UAVs ranged from 15 ounces to 34,000 pounds with a wing span bigger than a Boeing 737; the chief obstacle was inability to "see and avoid." Auburn's Wesley Randall predicted police use in five to 10 years and cargo UAVs in 15–20. Dorr said no local police departments had been authorized, though Houston and Miami had field-tested. Miami-Dade Sgt. Andrew Cohen said the department had tested two 18-pound camera UAVs for about 18 months, licensed to 200 feet and within 1,000 feet of the operator, for hostage or barricaded-suspect scenes: "It's an opportunity to increase safety for the officers."

**Kinematic object.** Small police UAVs (Miami-Dade 18 lb camera craft); generic UAV size range 15 oz–34,000 lb.

**Coverage frame.** regulatory / consumer

## Source integrity

- Why this is treated as an original: USA Today national report with named FAA, NMSU, Auburn and Miami-Dade sources.
- Wire reprint status: Not a wire reprint.
- What was excluded: later WaPo/LAT police-drone privacy wraps.
- Date: the fetched page's Posted stamp was blank; 13 January 2011 is taken from the usatoday30 URL path 2011-01-13-drones_N.htm.

## LRRK relevance

Watch / Control Fabric / Passport. A Watch desk would have recorded FAA small-UAS rule talk, COA streamlining, and Miami-Dade's 200 ft / 1,000 ft test box.

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