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Hayward City Approves Drone First Responder Program
Hayward has approved an expanded Drone as First Responder program for 911 calls, putting eight new drones into a Bay Area policing model that promises faster scene awareness while raising familiar questions about privacy, protests, and how far “reactive” drone…
Sacramento Sheriff Used A $999 DJI Avata 2 To Disarm A Suspect, And The Politics Are Sharper Than The Knife
A Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office pilot flew a consumer FPV drone into a garage, found a barricaded parolee holding a knife, and pulled the blade out of his hand with a magnet before any deputy stepped into the room. The…
Boynton Beach OKs $90K Axon Drone Over Budget Fears
Boynton Beach is getting a police drone first responder program, but not without a fight over the bill. On June 16 the city commission approved an Axon drone package in a 4-1 vote, with Commissioner Aimee Kelley the lone no…
Orlando Police Launch 11-Drone Skydio DFR Network
The Orlando Police Department activated its automated Drone as First Responder network on June 17, four months after council approved the $6.83 million contract amendment to deploy 11 Skydio drones across nine rooftop docks. The system is now responding live…
Normal Police Add Flock DFR to Six-Drone Fleet
The Normal Police Department will add a Flock Drone as First Responder unit to its existing six-drone fleet under a one-year pilot, after the Town of Normal Council approved the $50,000 purchase at its June 15 meeting. The seventh aircraft…
Skydio’s Adam Bry Blasts Big-Drone DFR as Bad Physics
Skydio CEO Adam Bry published a long-form article on X on June 8 making a direct case against the trend of building large quadcopters for Drone as First Responder (DFR) programs. His argument is not marketing. It is a physics-driven…
Skydio CEO Walks Back A No-Weapons Promise On Decoder, Then Argues Drawing Red Lines Is “Dangerously Misguided”
On a June 15 episode of The Verge‘s Decoder podcast, Skydio CEO Adam Bry distanced his company from a no-weapons commitment it published years ago and still has posted online. “This is an area where I’ve gotten some things wrong,”…
Toy Drones Win In Washington While Working Pilots Keep Losing
The Toy Association spent months lobbying the FCC, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of War, and last week it walked the halls of Capitol Hill during its annual Washington fly-in. On Tuesday it got exactly what it…
Lee County Sheriff Releases Drone Footage Of Man Firing A BB Gun At A DFR Aircraft, A Federal Felony
A Lee County Sheriff’s Office drone searching for a bear in southwest Florida recorded a man pointing a BB gun at the aircraft and firing at least twice, and the footage put a federal felony on camera in real time.…
DJI O4 Ground Station Pushes Dock 3 Programs Past Network Dead Zones
DJI released the DJI O4 Ground Station on June 16, 2026, a fixed transmission node built to keep DJI Dock 3 drone programs connected in places where cellular networks thin out or vanish. The hardware tackles the failure mode that…
Port St. Lucie Skydio X10 Saves Life On Day One
Port St. Lucie’s police department flipped the switch on its new Drone as First Responder program on June 11, and the system did not wait long to prove itself. Within hours, a remotely launched drone located a missing autistic woman…
What Three Illinois Spray Drone Operators Actually Fly
Ag spray drones have moved from novelty to revenue stream in the U.S. Corn Belt, and the operators flying them have strong opinions about which platforms hold up over a full season. Prairie Farmer recently spoke with three Illinois custom…