IACP Approves UAV Guidelines
The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Governing Body this week approved Recommended Guidelines for the Use of Unmanned Aircraft (downloadable here) by American law enforcement agencies. Among other things, they call for engagement with the community and offer specific suggestion as to how; discourage arming UAVs with weapons, in part because doing so will generate community resistance; recommend some specific oversight and accountability mech
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The International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Governing Body this week approved Recommended Guidelines for the Use of Unmanned Aircraft (downloadable here) by American law enforcement agencies. Among other things, they call for engagement with the community and offer specific suggestion as to how; discourage arming UAVs with weapons, in part because doing so will generate community resistance; recommend some specific oversight and accountability mechanisms; and suggest restrictions on and transparency of retained UAV imagery.
Matthew Waxman is a law professor at Columbia Law School, where he chairs the National Security Law Program. He also previously co-chaired the Cybersecurity Center at Columbia University's Data Science Institute, and he is Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served in senior policy positions at the State Department, Defense Department, and National Security Council. After graduating from Yale Law School, he clerked for Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter.
