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Senate Judiciary advances bill to permit emergency wiretaps with after‑the‑fact review
Summary
The Senate Committee on Judiciary advanced SB 284 with amendments to permit prosecutors to seek emergency wiretap orders in cases of imminent danger, requiring a prosecutor follow‑up application within 48 hours and an Attorney General response within 24 hours, the committee heard.
The Senate Committee on Judiciary voted to advance SB 284 with amendments that would allow prosecutors to obtain expedited wiretap orders in narrowly defined emergency situations, while preserving Department of the Attorney General oversight.
Corey Young, deputy attorney general, told the committee the AG’s office proposed replacing the bill’s deletion of review requirements with a new statutory section for exigent‑circumstance applications. "We are commenting on the bill and actually asking the committee to abandon the proposed changes and accept our basically revamped [approach], which would create an entirely new section ... to apply to emergency application orders," Young said.
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