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122 W. Va. L. Rev. 741 (2019-2020)
Enhanced Civil Rights in Home Rule Jurisdictions: Newly Emerging UAS/Drone Use Ordinances

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               ENHANCED CIVIL RIGHTS IN
               HOME RULE JURISDICTIONS:
NEWLY EMERGING UAS/DRONE USE ORDINANCES


                          Jennifer A. Brobst*

       If the mind of man can invent and operate a flying machine, it
       ought to be able to devise a rule of law which is adequate to deal
       with the problems flowing from such inventiveness. - Supreme
       Court of Oregon (1960)'


I.    INTRODUCTION.        .................................. ..... 742
II.   LOCAL  AUTHORITY  GOVERNING  NEW  TECHNOLOGY................. 747
III.  PROTECTING  LIFE: PUBLIC SAFETY AND WEAPONIZED  UAS  ..... 752
IV.   PROTECTING  PROPERTY: AERIAL AND
      SUBSURFACE  TRESPASS  AND NUISANCE           .................... 756
V.    PROTECTING  LIBERTY: COMPLEX  PRIVACY CONSIDERATIONS   .. 764
      A.  A Reasonable Expectation ofPrivacy
          from UAS Surveillance   ...................    ........ 767
      B.  Civil and Criminal Action Protecting Privacy .....    ..... 770
      C.  Art, Activism, and Journalism:
          UAS and the First Amendment    ............................. 773
VI.   WHY  PREEMPTION  OF DRONE USED  COULD
      DIMINISH CIVIL LIBERTES AND HOME  RULE INNOVATION........ 775
VII.  CONCLUSION         ................................... ...... 781









*    Jennifer A. Brobst is an Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law.
Many thanks to the Law Review students at the West Virginia University College of Law for their
editorial assistance and for the opportunity to present at the law school's State and Local Law
Symposium addressing Home Rule in February 2020. Special thanks to John T. Bennett, SIU/PSO
UAV Administrator and Chief Engineering Draftsman at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale,
and to Professor Mark Brittingham for their insights and local expertise.
I    Atkinson v. Bernard, Inc., 355 P.2d 229, 232 (Or. 1960).


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