WASHINGTON (AP) — Local, state and federal agencies ranging from local sheriff’s offices to the North Dakota Army National Guard have borrowed unmanned surveillance drones from the Homeland Security Department nearly 700 times in the past three years, according to government records obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The San Francisco-based civil liberties group got the Customs and Border Protection records as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The records do not list which sheriff’s offices or local law enforcement agencies were able to use the surveillance drones. The EFF first reported last year that the Homeland Security drones were used 498 times for other agencies, and updated its list this week after receiving additional records from the department.
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