Committee hears technical changes to search‑warrant inventory and electronic returns in HB1361
Senator Daryl Abbas introduced HB1361 to change statutory language referencing 'applicant' to 'law‑enforcement officer' for search‑warrant inventory returns and to update returns for electronic records served by providers; the state police supported the change as aligning statute with portal workflows and preserving witness requirements for physical searches.
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Senator Daryl Abbas presented HB1361 as a technical modernization to the search‑warrant statute and inventory/return language. The bill would replace the word "applicant" with "law‑enforcement officer" for inventory returns and clarify the treatment of electronic returns from service providers such as Google or social platforms.
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