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Senate committee advances bill expanding GBI administrative subpoena authority for swatting and domestic-terrorism threats
Summary
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously advanced a bill giving the GBI administrative subpoena authority to obtain subscriber information in investigations of swatting, domestic terrorism, terroristic threats and harassing phone calls.
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously advanced House Bill 161 after hearing testimony from Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) officials and legislative counsel about a late substitute that reorganized definitions and clarified prosecutorial language.
What the bill would do: The proposal would add several crimes — domestic terrorism, terroristic threats, swatting and harassing phone calls — to the list of offenses for which the GBI director or assistant director, with oversight from the Attorney…
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