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Assembly adopts bill tightening warrant rules for law‑enforcement access to location and electronic data
Summary
Assembly Bill 2565 passed after debate over emergency exceptions and procedural safeguards for law‑enforcement access to electronic location information; sponsors said the measure modernizes warrant requirements while critics warned it could hamper urgent investigations.
The Assembly passed Assembly Bill 2565 on Wednesday, a measure that tightens the circumstances under which law enforcement may obtain electronic-location and communications information without a warrant and creates reporting and post‑execution oversight requirements.
The bill’s sponsor, Mister Dinowitz, said the legislation updates search-and-seizure rules for a digital era and emphasized that, in many cases, obtaining a warrant remains appropriate. On the floor he told colleagues that “the prudent thing to do would be to obtain a warrant” when investigators…
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