Oro Valley is about to see more police activity in the skies. The Town Council has unanimously signed off on a roughly $146,000 grant that lets the police department enter a one-year agreement with Flock Safety to add four remote-operated drones to its fleet. Police say the drones are meant to act as first-responder tools, giving officers an early look at dangerous scenes and helping speed up evidence collection, not to conduct round-the-clock neighborhood surveillance. Still, the plan is already facing criticism from privacy advocates and residents who worry that license-plate-reading cameras on the drones could expand vehicle tracking across city and state lines.
The council vote approved an Arizona Department of Public Safety grant that will pay for the one-year…..