Who flies surveillance drones in Marin County?
- Active Drones
- Agency
- Marin County Sheriff's Office
- Vendor
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- Devices
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| System | Agency | Vendor | Status | Devices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Drones | Marin County Sheriff's Office | — | Active | — |
What we do not know
Marin County Sheriff
- The aircraft in the fleet, their models and their cost.
- The approval record for the program under Policy 706, Military Equipment, which this pass did not read in detail.
- Deployments per year and what they were used for.
- The office's military equipment inventory and its drone statistics, both of which returned HTTP 404 on this pass.
What drones are
An unmanned aircraft carrying a camera, flown by a public agency. Where a state classes drones as military equipment, as California does, a public policy and a governing-body vote are required before an agency uses one.
How they work, why agencies buy them, and every county we have documented →
What you can do
Civic action
Show up
This technology is bought and renewed by boards, councils and committees that meet in public. We have not yet confirmed where each of them meets in Marin County.
Go to the Marin County hub →Personal protection
Protect yourself
Practical steps to shrink your personal data trail. Our guides publish at launch; until then, EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense is the best starting point.
Surveillance Self-Defense ↗