On Monday, January 27th, we co-hosted a drone-related event with Portland’s Techno-Activism 3rd Mondays, featuring Portland Investigative Journalist and Researcher Kate Kaye, of RedTail Media. Kate is also Deputy Director of World Privacy Forum.

At the meeting, Kate shared a brief history of drones in Portland along with the findings of her research into how, and how often, the Portland Police Bureau uses drones.

More information about the event is available at https://www.eff.org/event/portland-people-tracking-drones-and-portland-police-bureau, and if you missed it or want to see it again, you can watch a recording of the event here: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1053161964?share=copy.

Kate’s handout from the event is available here:
https://redtailmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/RedTailMedia_KateKaye_PortlandPoliceDroneSurveillance_InfoAndLinksJanuary2025.pdf

Follow Kate on Bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/katekaye.bsky.social

And, if you’d like to help her defray some of her research costs, you can contribute to her Patreon here:
https://www.patreon.com/redtailreporting

Finally, a shout-out to opal for making the video possible. Thank you! 🙌