Drone Law Today

Police Use of Drones & the Fourth Amendment!   Welcome back, Drone Law Nation! Today we start a special series on Drone Law Today: Drones and the Fourth Amendment!   Police use of drone technology will be an important legal issue going forward. To understand how it may play out – and the constitutional issues involved – we have to look at the case law that has come before.   For generations, the U.S. Supreme Court has been grappling with questions about how police use of new technology fits within the constitutional limits on police "search and seizure" authority. The way these cases have been decided will impact future cases involving police use of drones.   How will the courts look at drone "searches" under the Fourth Amendment? Will warrants be required? How does new "drone tech" fit within the existing aerial surveillance case law?   The answer is it depends! No one really knows how the first "drone search" case will turn out.   But we can understand how the courts will m