{"id":16,"date":"2026-09-09T21:38:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/?p=16"},"modified":"2026-09-10T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:03:09","slug":"city-council-withdraws-motion-to-approve-expansion-of-sppd-drone-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"City Council withdraws motion to approve expansion of SPPD drone program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After postponing for a week any action on RES 26-1399 \u2014 authorizing the Saint Paul Police Department to apply for up to $200,000 from the Department of Justice to expand their \u201cDrones as First Responders\u201d program \u2014 the city council today withdrew the resolution from consideration. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2026\/09\/09\/st-paul-city-council-no-drone-expansion\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Paul Pioneer Press<\/a>, City Council president Rebecca Noecker said the item was \u201cwithdrawn because this council does not support an expansion of our drone program until a number of questions and concerns are addressed, and we will not be authorizing this grant application.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After postponing for a week any action on RES 26-1399 \u2014 authorizing the Saint Paul Police Department to apply for up to $200,000 from the Department of Justice to expand their \u201cDrones as First Responders\u201d program \u2014 the city council today withdrew the resolution from consideration. According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, City Council &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/?p=16\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City Council withdraws motion to approve expansion of SPPD drone program&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.eyesoffsaintpaul.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}