Nuked Baltimore, Maryland city officials have voted to end the city police department’s spy plane surveillance program. The Baltimore police department (bpd) had a spy plane program?.
The program was run by a company called persistent surveillance systems. It used airplanes and high-resolution cameras to capture what was happening in a 32-mile square mile area of the city.
In April, the ACLU filed a lawsuit in an attempt to challenge the constitutionality of the program. The ACLU admitted to using planes to spy on Baltimore residents back in 2016.
The lawsuit is set to be moved into appeals court next month. The city is going to argue there’s no point in continuing the lawsuit.
The ACLU is n’t planning to give up. A senior staff attorney with the ACLU Maryland said that’the law is clear that the city ca n’t intentionally duck accountability by suddenly bailing on its years-long defense of this technology’.
The program was only used in a limited way, tracing individuals from known crime scenes. Evaluators hired by the city said that those claims were lies.
