{"id":732871,"date":"2026-04-16T20:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/732871\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T20:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:29:21","slug":"arizona-bill-aims-to-bar-drones-above-ticketed-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/732871\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona bill aims to bar drones above ticketed events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 A move to restrict drone flights near big events is being promoted as a measure to protect public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tim Dunn said the operators of Phoenix International Raceway came to him with concerns that drones over their events could become a hazard if they fell into a crowd. So the Yuma Republican agreed to sponsor legislation making it illegal to fly a drone within 400 feet \u2014 altitude or distance \u2014 from any \u201cticketed entertainment event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, the legislation, which has picked up the support of NASCAR, the Arizona Cardinals, the Arizona Diamondbacks, and Live Nation Entertainment, has been expanded to create a 1-mile bubble around sporting events, concerts and any other paid event. That includes any event that is outdoors or at a venue with a retractable roof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 A move to restrict drone flights near big events is being promoted as a measure to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":732872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-732871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116416281287349248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}