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Utah Senate approves bill to let local agencies reduce RCFL backlog in digital-evidence cases
Summary
The Senate passed first substitute S.B. 19 to let local law enforcement perform or partner for mobile device forensics and reserve the RCFL for more complex devices, aiming to cut a backlog that sponsors said has delayed investigations by up to a year.
The Utah State Senate on the floor approved first substitute Senate Bill 19, a measure intended to reduce a backlog at the Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory (RCFL) by allowing local law-enforcement agencies to perform or partner for mobile-device forensic work. The bill passed 26–1 with two absent and will be sent to the House for consideration.
Sponsor Senator Wyler introduced the bill as a response to what he described as “a substantial backlog at the RCFL facility” and…
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