Baltimore lawmakers have scheduled a public meeting to hear from local residents about a plan to put a police surveillance plane back in the air—the same one that operated for months over Baltimore before police grounded it after it was exposed in 2016.
The hearing is set for 4 p.m. on Oct. 16 at City Hall. Members of the council’s Public Safety Committee pinned that date down at their meeting on Monday.
While officials two years ago ended the covert operation of the plane—two wealthy Texas financiers had funded its operation for 90 days without any public announcement from police, Bloomberg first reported—a coordinated group of individuals have been pushing this year to bring it back in the name of both fighting crime and potentially surveilling police for misconduct, The Sun first reported.
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