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Committee adds swatting, terroristic threats and related crimes to GBI administrative-subpoena authority
Summary
House Bill 161’s substitute would allow the GBI, with the attorney general’s concurrence, to issue administrative subpoenas for subscriber records in investigations of swatting, terroristic threats, harassing phone calls and domestic terrorism.
Chairman Crow presented a committee substitute for House Bill 161 (LC 560311S) to expand the circumstances in which the Georgia Bureau of Investigation may obtain subscriber information from telecommunications providers by administrative subpoena, subject to attorney-general oversight. The bill would add offenses such as swatting, terroristic threats, harassing phone calls and domestic terrorism to the existing list of crimes for which the director of the GBI, with the attorney general's consent, may seek…
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