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Miami Beach Cops Use Tethered Blimp for Surveillance to Get Around Drone Ban

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The state of Florida passed a law in 2015 banning the use of drones to monitor citizens from the air. But police in Miami Beach, Florida have come up with a clever workaround: They’re using a tethered blimp, called an aerostat, for crowd surveillance and they argue that it’s not a drone.

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