Miami Beach Cops Use Surveillance Blimp to Get Around Drone Ban
Miami Beach Cops Use Tethered Blimp for Surveillance to Get Around Drone Ban. 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. But it’s not just the Miami Beach PD who are using aerostats on American soil. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) uses similar aerostats (pictured below) for surveillance and have been for years.
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