Saw a story last year out of Texas where a guy FOIA'd his city and found the code enforcement office had a $15k contract with a drone outfit called SkyWatch or something like that. They were doing weekly flyovers of neighborhoods flagged for "repeat violations." The part that got me was the contract said they had to keep the footage for two years. I'd check if Mesa has any public records on drone vendors before assuming it's just the HOA. Those flight logs your neighbor has are the kind of thing that would hold up if you sent them to the city or a local reporter.

Would you trust a beam wrench on something actually critical?

Wish I had known this sooner, wasted so much time posting in the morning.