With the week of November 4 through November 10, 2019 highlighting the first National Drone Safety Awareness Week, a federal lawsuit is underway in Austin that challenges Texas’ drone law, arguing it unconstitutionally restricts visual journalists, reports Edinburg City Attorney Omar Ochoa. The legal action, filed on Thursday, September 26, 2019, was brought by the National Press Photographers Association, the Texas Press Association and an independent journalist filed a lawsuit in Austin federal court challenging a Texas law— Texas Government Code Chapter 423 — that makes it a crime for visual journalists and others to use drones for news gathering and ...