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Bill to limit release of victims’ private phone data advances after bipartisan negotiations
Summary
Lawmakers advanced SB290, which would require law enforcement to segregate evidence from nonpublic victim and witness data on electronic devices, preserve core discovery obligations, and adopt written policies to protect sensitive material; prosecutors, defense attorneys and law‑enforcement groups said they negotiated the text.
Senators and representatives in a legislative committee advanced SB290, the victim and witness privacy amendments, after sponsor Senator Baldry described a negotiated approach to limit how investigators handle sensitive electronic data.
The bill would require law enforcement and prosecutors to separate directly related evidence from nonpublic victim and witness data — such as intimate images and private communications — so that defense counsel continue to receive all evidence required under rule 16 while unrelated private material is protected. "Victims who come forward…
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