§ 63G-18-105. Reporting. (Effective 5/13/2014)

(1)

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (1)(b), before March 31 of each year, a law enforcement agency that operated an unmanned aerial vehicle in the previous calendar year shall submit to the Utah Department of Public Safety, and make public on the law enforcement agency's website, a written report containing:

(i) the number of times the law enforcement agency operated an unmanned aerial vehicle in the previous calendar year;

(ii) the number of criminal investigations aided by the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle operated by the law enforcement agency in the previous calendar year;

(iii) a description of how the unmanned aerial vehicle was helpful to each investigation described in Subsection (1)(a)(ii);

(iv) the frequency with which data was collected, and the type of data collected, by an unmanned aerial vehicle operated by the law enforcement agency on any person, structure, or area other than a target in the previous calendar year;

(v) the number of times a law enforcement agency received, from a person who is not a law enforcement agency, data collected by an unmanned aerial vehicle; and

(vi) the total cost of the unmanned aerial vehicle program operated by the law enforcement agency in the previous calendar year.

(b)

(i) A law enforcement agency that submits a report described in Subsection (1)(a) may exclude from the report information pertaining to an ongoing investigation.

(ii) A law enforcement agency that excludes information under Subsection (1)(b)(i) from the report shall report the excluded information to the Utah Department of Public Safety on the annual report in the year following the year in which the information was excluded.

(2) Before May 31 of each year, the Utah Department of Public Safety shall, for all reports received under Subsection (1) during the previous calendar year:

(a) transmit to the Government Operations Interim Committee and post on the department's website a report containing:

(i) a summary of the information reported to the department;

(ii) the total number of issued warrants authorizing the operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle; and

(iii) the number of denied warrants for the operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle; and

(b) post on the department's website each report the department received.

Enacted by Chapter 399, 2014 General Session