Mysterious aircraft circling sacramento Cali recently. Ideas??

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Minuteman said:
How does that "curtilage" work again?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion...incy-planes/0h9EObhcoQvh41WxdpAHZM/story.html
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Doesn't apply in aerial surveillance, under California vs Ciraolo 476 US 207 (1986).

Basically that any area that can be observed from a normal place one is legal to be, is not a curtilage violation. So while police can't come up to a home's window and peer in to find evidence of a crime without a warrant (barring exigent circumstances), if they happen to observe the same thing while driving by the home......on a pubic road.....and happen to notice something through say an open gate to a yard, or an open window; then that doesn't violate curtilage.

At the same time, being in the air in an aircraft is a legal place to be. If something is observed from the air in an open yard or open top of a home....basically not covered/concealed from the casual overhead observer, and that anyone else could've observed when flying over (whether they are specifically looking or not); then it's not a curtilage violation and thereby not a warrantless search.
 
Minuteman said:
FYI, here's the track mentioned in the story. It must be a Mode C transponder. If there's no Mode S identifier, I wonder how they determined it to be a Cessna 150F.

http://fr24.com/2014-03-09/00:11/12x//2da6b1c
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They said they identified the tail number using binoculars.

On a side note. The faa says that have not had communications with said aircraft because it is flying too low to be in contact. Ie..."G" airspace. But it's over a residential area. I would be suspicious if I were the faa...
 
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