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Senate approves warrant requirement for law-enforcement searches of prescription database
Summary
The Utah Senate moved a first-substitute to Senate Bill 119 requiring probable-cause search warrants for law-enforcement access to the state prescription drug monitoring database; supporters cited documented abuses and privacy concerns. The substitute passed on the floor and will proceed for third reading.
The Utah Senate on the floor advanced a first-substitute to Senate Bill 119 that would require law enforcement to obtain a probable-cause search warrant before querying the state’s prescription drug monitoring database.
Sponsor Senator Weider outlined committee testimony alleging instances of misuse by officers and argued the change would restore Fourth Amendment protections for highly sensitive medical information. “What this would do is say that that same police officer or agency would have to first get a search warrant showing probable cause,” he said.
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