Iowa City Passes Unique Drone and Traffic-Camera Ban, But is the Debate Over?: Iowa City Daily News Links, June 19

What, June is almost over already? Weird.

On to the Links!
Gregg Hennigan of the Gazette writes that though Iowa City received a lot of attention nationally for passing a ban on drones and red light traffic cameras, that doesn't mean the issue is dead for one of those surveillance techniques.

Adam Sullivan of the Iowa City Press-Citizen gauges the local reaction on the morning after pill possibly being more accessible. 

Alesha Crews has some more on the upcoming Hancher auditorium season. (Press-Citizen)

Aly Brown of the Press-Citizen reported that some community members criticized the school district's plan to upgrade its fencing around schools.

The Iowa City Animal Shelter is 3/4 of the way to its $1 million goal.

Mitchell Schmidt of the Press-Citizen said the Johnson County has seen fire and seen rain in the form of disasters already this year, and it gave updates on progress on both.

Sen. Chuck Grassley argues that taxpayers should be able to see how much money doctors receive from Medicare. (Des Moines Register)

Police are on the lookout for an inmate who escaped from Hope House. (Press-Citizen)

There are some new rules that boaters need to remember to follow says the DNR. (Associated Press)

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day

The Iowa City Council Tuesday night adopted what may be a first-in-the-nation law to ban traffic-enforcement cameras, drones and most uses of license-plate readers, but it comes with a big caveat.

Despite the 7-0 vote to adopt an ordinance outlawing those technologies, the majority of the council still supports the use of red-light cameras. Also, city officials saw no problem prohibiting drones and automatic license-plate readers because the city has no plans to use them except, for the latter, for parking violations.

Still, Iowa City’s law appears to be at the very least uncommon and possibly unique in the United States.

“I’ve never heard of a law that covers all three of those at once,” said Jay Stanley, senior policy analysis for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project.