A lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of three Sonoma County residents accuses the county of using drones to take aerial images of their property in violation of their right to privacy.

One plaintiff said she received a notice of code violations shortly after a drone circled over her property twice.

Three residents filed a lawsuit this week against Sonoma County seeking to block code enforcement from using drones to take aerial images of their homes in what the American Civil Liberties Union is calling a “runaway spying operation.”

The lawsuit, filed by the ACLU Wednesday on behalf of the three residents, alleges that the county began using drones with high-powered cameras and zoom lenses in 2019 to track illegal cannabis cultivation, but in the years since, officials have used the devi

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