HB14 Alabama 2020 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2020

Title

ALEA, felony drug trafficking wiretapping, interception of wire, oral, or electronic communications, Attorney General to authorize to apply for court order for intercept and to apply for intercept orders, disclosure of recorded communications, penalties for violations, Secs. 20-2A-1 to 20-2A-15, inclusive, added; Sec. 15-5-40 am'd

Description

Relating to wiretapping; to add a new Chapter 2A to Title 20, Code of Alabama 1975; to authorize the Attorney General to submit an application to a circuit court judge to intercept any wire or electronic communication under certain circumstances; to specify the procedures for obtaining an intercept order, the information that must be included in an intercept order, the limitations of an intercept order, and the means by which the communication is to be intercepted; to provide for the extension of intercept orders under certain conditions; to prohibit the destruction of recorded communications for a specified time frame; to allow an investigative officer to submit a written request to the Attorney General, through the Secretary of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency, requesting the Attorney General apply for an intercept order; to specify under what conditions recorded communications may be disclosed; to provide for civil and criminal penalties for violations; to amend Section 15-5-40, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the sealing of certain records relating to pen registers and trap and trace devices; to provide penalties for unauthorized disclosures; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.

Subjects

Wiretapping