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Committee adopts limits on reverse‑keyword search warrants for nonviolent crimes, keeps judicial review for violent felonies
Summary
The committee adopted the second substitute to HB 273, which places an outright ban on reverse‑keyword searches for most investigations while allowing a judicially reviewed process for certain violent felonies, mirroring prior geofence-warrant compromise language.
The committee considered legislation placing guardrails on reverse‑keyword search warrants, a digital investigative technique that asks a provider for records of users who searched a specified term.
Nut graf: Sponsors said the compromise seeks to protect Fourth Amendment interests by banning broad reverse‑keyword searches in routine cases while preserving a narrowly tailored, court‑reviewed process…
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