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Santa Ana Police Department Santa Ana PD Policy Manual Unmanned Aerial System (d) To conduct personal business of any type. The UAS shall not be equipped with any device or platform capable of employing lethal force. Notwithstanding the authorized or prohibited uses above, the Bureau Commander or their designee must approve any other use of the UAS not expressly provided for in this Policy. 606.8 UAS OBTAINED DATA Except for training and demonstration purposes, when the UAS is used to capture video or still images, the recordings shall be reviewed for evidentiary value.Any items of evidentiary value shall be downloaded and booked as evidence under the related case number. Audio and/or images captured by a UAS and booked as evidence shall be retained in accordance with the Department's Evidence Policy. (a) The collection of data includes, but is not limited to, digital photographs, videos, and I images, and is limited to the extent necessary to accomplish the mission. (b) As a general rule, the UAS Pilot will not record during operations. (c) If the UAS Pilot determines circumstances exist such that a recording has or may have evidentiary value, the UAS Pilot may record as necessary. (d) Only data that qualifies as having a legitimate training objective or evidentiary value will be retained after a mission is concluded. Any retained data will be uploaded to Evidence.com. All other data will be purged via electronic deletion. Digital flight logs are exempt from this requirement. This data will be stored in accordance with the Department's Records Maintenance and Release Policy. Department members shall not retain recordings of activities or information obtained during an on-duty UAS deployment. Members shall not duplicate or distribute such recordings, except for authorized legitimate Department business purposes. Unless for official business, recordings of any type shall not be posted to or distributed via the internet, email, file transfer, remote computer access, news services, social networking, social media, instant messaging,text messaging, blogs, forums, video, or other file sharing sites without prior approval from the Chief of Police or their designee. 606.9 TRAINING WITH UAS VIDEO FILES Video files and images from a UAS deployment may serve as a training tool for individuals, specific units, and the Department. Department members recommending the utilization of a UAS video file for training purposes will submit the recommendation for approval through the chain of command to their Division Commander, who will present the request to the UAS Unit Commander. 606.10 FLIGHT LOGS AND INFORMATION Following the completion of any flight, UAS pilots will log the date, flight time, and locations of all UAS deployments. All UAS Flight logs shall, at a minimum, note: case number, incident type, purpose of flight, duration of flight, maximum altitude, and specify whether automated flight or manual flight. (li¢�yroAp ML*i[LC 2026/01/05,All Rights Reserved. ***DRAFT51t 61 Unmanned Aerial � 20_76 `�'u�lished'w`ii permission by Santa Ana Police Department