{"id":86160,"date":"2025-07-23T14:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/86160\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T14:43:09","slug":"nyc-launches-drone-ops-committee-to-coordinate-use-across-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/86160\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC launches drone ops committee to coordinate use across agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday announced the formation of the Drone Operations Committee, a group of city agency leaders that will help to coordinate drone operations across the city.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the group is to cement New York City\u2019s position as a national leader in using drones to keep New Yorkers safe, according to a press release. Adams said agency leaders will retain control over their drone programs; participating agencies include the police, fire emergency management, parks, buildings and environmental protection departments.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Kaz Daughtry will chair the committee<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/aclu-drones-first-responders-dfr-surveillance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">law enforcement use of the drones<\/a> has drawn ire, Adams\u2019 Tuesday announcement follows expansions of New York\u2019s drone program in recent years. Last year, the NYPD shared its plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/new-york-rescue-drones-flotation-devices-beaches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">equip aerial drones<\/a> with floatation devices to help swimmers in distress. In 2023, officials launched a drone program to monitor for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/new-york-state-expanding-shark-drones-long-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shark activity<\/a>\u00a0on Long Island. Also in 2023, the NYPD said it would respond to complaints about large, backyard parties over Labor Day weekend with surveillance drones that are part of the\u00a0NYPD\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/827-24\/mayor-adams-interim-police-commissioner-donlon-drone-first-responder-program-to\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">drone-as-first-responder<\/a> initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrones are the future of public safety, and under Deputy Mayor Daughtry\u2019s leadership, New York City\u2019s first-ever Drone Operations Committee will take this technology to the next level,\u201d Adams said in the release. \u201cKaz has spent his career protecting this city and has spent much of it utilizing new technologies to keep New Yorkers safe, and now he\u2019ll ensure that our drone operations are coordinated, strategic, and always focused on safeguarding the people of New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753281789_190_dY969nH0-1.jpg\" alt=\"Keely Quinlan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tWritten by Keely Quinlan<br \/>\n\t\t\tKeely Quinlan reports on privacy and digital government for StateScoop. She was an investigative news reporter with Clarksville Now in Tennessee, where she resides, and her coverage included local crimes, courts, public education and public health. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Stereogum and other outlets. She earned her bachelor\u2019s in journalism and master\u2019s in social and cultural analysis from New York University.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday announced the formation of the Drone Operations Committee, a group&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":86161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5247,58176,5289,405,403,58177,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-86160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-drone","10":"tag-drone-as-first-responder","11":"tag-eric-adams","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-police-department-nypd","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114903082855216871","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86160","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=86160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}