Kentucky Senate Bill SB16 would prohibit flying drones over concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) and food processing facilities, including meat and poultry packing plants.  In addition, the Bill would ban unauthorized photo and video equipment in the vicinity of agricultural operations and the distribution of recordings.

The Senate Bill is simply an extension of Ag Gag legislation that is generally ruled unconstitutional when challenged in federal courts.  Legislators in agricultural states are ever eager to frame and pass legislation that is subsequently ruled as unconstitutional.  State laws to ban intrusion and distribution of videos by animal rights organizations, while justifiable, appear unfortunately to be unenforceable.