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Policy & Regulation
Dallas Drone Pilot Indicted on Four Counts Over Love Field and DFW Flights: What Each Statute Carries
A Dallas grand jury charged a 24-year-old with four federal counts over alleged drone flights near Love Field and DFW. The 8-year maximum is in the headlines, but the runway charge itself carries just one year.
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Policy & Regulation
FBI Will More Than Double Its Counter-Drone School After 700 World Cup Seizures, but the Safer Skies Pipeline Still Runs Through One Campus
The FBI's Redstone counter-drone school will more than double capacity after 700 World Cup seizures, but with 250 more graduates expected next fiscal year and about 340 metro cities waiting, the only path to local takedown authority remains a bottleneck.
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Policy & Regulation
$75,000-a-Violation No-Drone Zone Locks Down Dallas for the RNC Midterm Convention
Five federal agencies warned Dallas drone operators on Sept. 8 that flying inside the RNC Midterm Convention's 3-mile, 400-foot TFR risks $75,000 civil fines, criminal prosecution, and interception by Secret Service counter-drone aircraft.
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Policy & Regulation
DHS, DOJ and FCC Finalize SAFER SKIES Act Rules Giving Local Police Counter-Drone Authority
A new Interim Final Rule, effective July 1 and published July 6, 2026, lets trained state, local, Tribal and territorial agencies detect, track, disable or seize drones — backed by FCC spectrum actions and a mandatory FBI training course at Redstone Arsenal.
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Policy & Regulation
Eight Men Indicted in Foiled Plot to Fly Explosive Drones Into White House UFC Event
A federal grand jury in Ohio indicted eight men on terrorism and murder-conspiracy charges over an alleged plot to fly explosive-laden drones into the White House UFC Freedom 250 event and shoot fleeing spectators.
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Policy & Regulation
The SAFER SKIES Rule Goes Live: Cops Can Now Legally Down Drones — If They Pass the FBI Schoolhouse First
A DOJ/DHS interim final rule effective July 1 lets state, local, tribal, territorial and correctional agencies detect, track and shoot down drones — but only after FBI certification, which is also the gate to a $500M grant pool.
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Policy & Regulation
New Jersey's 2024 Drone Wave: What Federal Investigators Actually Found
In late 2024, weeks of nightly drone sightings across New Jersey and the Northeast triggered a federal investigation, thousands of public tips, and emergency airspace restrictions—before a four-agency joint statement concluded most reports were misidentified manned aircraft, with no foreign nexus and no national security threat.
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Policy & Regulation
Coast Guard's First Multi-City Counter-UAS Deployment Guards the 2026 FIFA World Cup
The U.S. Coast Guard is running its first-ever simultaneous multi-city domestic counter-drone operation, covering 13 World Cup matches across Boston and San Francisco plus Sail 250 celebrations in four cities, backed by $150 million in C-UAS investment and 140 trained personnel.
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Policy & Regulation
Who Can Legally Shoot Down a Drone in the US — and Why the Answer Is Complicated
Federal aircraft law, the Aircraft Sabotage Act, and overlapping wiretapping statutes mean that almost nobody — not state police, not sheriffs, not private citizens — had clear legal authority to neutralize a rogue drone until Congress began carving out narrow exceptions.
