The Orange County Sheriff's Office is experimenting with two surveillance drones that it hopes to turn loose over Metro Orlando skies this summer.

Sheriff's spokesman Jeff Williamson would not reveal specific uses for the drones, larger versions of which are known for flying over tribal regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan to drop bombs on suspected terrorists.

But Williamson did say Orange's remote-controlled planes would not be armed. The agency still needs approval from county leaders and the Federal Aviation Administration to use them. The FAA said it does not comment on drone applications.
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Privacy advocates oppose drones for civilian use, saying they can too easily be used to snoop on law-abiding citizens, not just criminals or those thought to be doing something illegal.

"This is unwise and unnecessary. … Sheriffs are supposed to be sheriffs, not the U.S. Army," said Doug Head, a Democratic activist who closely follows Orange County politics.
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Although Williamson would not say exactly how the drones would be used, he wrote in an email that they might be deployed when looking for explosives, barricaded suspects and to inspect "hostile/inaccessible terrain" or at train accidents.
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In my opinion, these drones could easily get out of hand and we would have no privacy left.

It woud not take long for the popluation to find where all the nude ladies were laying in the sun, that is where the plane would be flying in a circles. Cops cannot be trusted with these thing.

Dang what was I thinking, this is the left coast it could be nude little boys.

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It woud not take long for the popluation to find where all the nude ladies were laying in the sun, that is where the plane would be flying in a circles. Cops cannot be trusted with these thing.

Dang what was I thinking, this is the left coast it could be nude little boys.

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But they do not have the money to protect the schools. How about that parents, the sheriff wants a toy, to hell with your kids.