The Baltimore City Council plans to summon Baltimore police to a hearing to explain its use of a manned plane with cameras to record movements all across the city.

The Baltimore Sun reports that council members will ask the department why it didn’t disclose its use of a private company to fly the plane and collect the images.

Baltimore police spokesman T.J. Smith said Wednesday that it’s just another potential tool in the department’s crime-fighting arsenal. He said the department is testing the service provided by Persistent Surveillance Systems, a company marketing its eyes in the sky to Baltimore and other cities.

Lester Davis, a spokesman for City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young, says they’ll hold the hearing “as soon as possible.”

(AP)