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Committee approves fee to fund digital forensic exams for internet-crime investigations
Summary
The committee voted 13-0 (one absent) to recommend passage of Senate Bill 2167, creating a maximum $100 defendant fee to fund digital forensic examinations for internet-crime investigations, with funds directed to an Internet Crimes Investigation Fund for technology-facilitated child exploitation and related investigations.
The House Judiciary Committee voted 13-0, with one member absent, to recommend passage of Senate Bill 2167, establishing a fee to support digital forensic examinations used in certain criminal investigations.
Under the bill, courts could assess a maximum $100 fee on defendants to support a fund for digital forensic services. Representative Better summarized the proposal during committee discussion: the fee would apply when digital forensic services were used in an investigation and would be collected to support an Internet…
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