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Committee backs limits on reverse-keyword search warrants for serious felony investigations
Summary
The committee favorably recommended second-substitute House Bill 273, restricting reverse-keyword searches to violent-felony investigations under a multistep judicial review process, and passed the recommendation 5-0.
A Senate Judiciary committee voted to favorably recommend second-substitute House Bill 273, which limits the use of reverse-keyword search warrants to investigations of violent felonies and imposes multi-step judicial review intended to narrow the pool of returned results.
Representative Wilcox, sponsor of HB 273, said the measure is the result of multiple years of negotiations and seeks a compromise between a full ban and unfettered law-enforcement access. He referenced prior debate over geofence and…
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