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Committee grills AGO and law‑enforcement groups over bill letting AG investigators serve business warrants
Summary
House Bill 2156 would let Attorney General investigators electronically serve business search warrants with judicial authorization when the AGO has concurrent jurisdiction. Law‑enforcement groups raised training, oversight and separation‑of‑powers concerns; the AGO said the change would improve efficiency for economic‑crime cases.
The committee next considered House Bill 2156, an AGO request bill that would give Attorney General Office investigators limited authority to serve search warrants on businesses (primarily for business records) when the AGO has concurrent jurisdiction from a county prosecutor or the governor.
Staff explained the bill’s three parts: (1) an AGO investigator’s authority is limited by the scope of the entity granting concurrent jurisdiction, (2) AGO investigators must have judicial authorization before serving a warrant on a business and typically would…
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