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Senate committee advances bill to limit victims’ phone data handed to defense, adopts compromise substitute
Summary
Lawmakers advanced SB 290 after hours of testimony from prosecutors, defense attorneys and victim advocates. The bill narrows what nonpublic electronic data must be produced in discovery and establishes controlled review options; the committee adopted a negotiated substitute and recommended it to the Senate floor.
Senators on the Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee voted to advance SB 290, a measure that would restrict automatic disclosure of victims’ nonpublic electronic data in criminal discovery and require prosecutors to turn over only data relevant and necessary to a case while providing defense counsel controlled access under court supervision.
Sponsor Senator Baldry said the measure responds to cases where broad “phone dumps” of private information have led to secondary trauma for victims, citing the 2018 University of Utah case discussed in…
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