Ever seen The Wire? Do you think those cops could have seriously used a team of drones taking photos of Stringer Bell for 12 hours a day? Turns out so does the city of Baltimore itself, whose drone surveillance program was reviewed (yet upheld) by the Fourth Circuit last week. Also, the team discusses what the Washington State Constitution has to do with privileges or immunities in the dairy industry.

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Transcript: https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Short-Circuit-Episode-153-Edited.pdf
Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle v. Baltimore Police Department, https://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/201495.P.pdf
Martinez-Cuevas v. Deruyter Brothers Dairy, http://www.courts.wa.gov/opinions/pdf/962677.pdf
Courtney v. Danner, https://ij.org/case/lake-chelan-ferries/

Dan Alban, https://ij.org/staff/dalban/
Wesley Hottott, https://ij.org/staff/whottot/
Anthony Sanders, https://ij.org/staff/asanders/

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