Unmanned aircraft systems; use by law-enforcement officers, search warrants.

Updated the document header from 'Courts of Justice Substitute' to 'Enrolled' and changed the date reference to '2026 Session' to reflect the bill's final status.

Added non-breaking spaces before section numbers (e.g., § 9.1-102) and corrected spacing in legal citations throughout the text.

Corrected a numbering error in the drone usage exceptions list by changing duplicate item (viii) to (ix) and (ix) to (x).

Removed draft-specific text such as 'OFFERED FOR CONSIDERATION' and the 'Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute' designation.

Added a new section granting the Department of Criminal Justice Services broad authority to adopt regulations, establish training standards, and create model policies for law enforcement on topics ranging from crisis intervention and human trafficking to school security and bias-based policing.

Modified drone usage rules to clarify that real-time aerial observation for safety and supply delivery is a warrantless exception, and expanded the list of warrantless exceptions to include investigating drones over public infrastructure.

Modified drone warrant exceptions to require that crime scene documentation occur only on public property and to specify that aerial surveys of residences are only for formulating arrest plans or locating fleeing suspects.

Set a deadline of December 1, 2026, for the Department to establish the model policy for drone use.

Added a specific definition clarifying that 'weaponized unmanned aircraft systems' do not include systems designed solely to disable other drones.