Central Florida Republican Senator Tom Wright (District 14) filed Senate Bill 44. It would allow law enforcement to use drones to monitor large crowds, assist with traffic control and collect crime scene evidence.


Currently it is illegal for a Florida law enforcement agency to use a drone to gather evidence or other information.
Under the 2013 state law, law enforcement cannot legally use a drone in Florida “to record an image of privately owned real property or of the owner, tenant, occupant, invitee, or licensee of such property with the intent to conduct surveillance on the individual or property captured in the image in violation of such person’s reasonable expectation of privacy without his or her written consent.”