Bills · 2019-2020 Regular Session
Relating to: voice recordings of testimony that forms the basis of an application for a search warrant.
Court — Procedure Court — Reporter Creditor Judge Search warrant
- Introduced, stopped here
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, when a person places a phone call to a judge to request a
search warrant, the judge must place the caller under oath to take any testimony
that may form the basis of a search warrant. The testimony must be recorded either
by a court reporter or by means of a voice recording device. If recorded by a recording
device, the recording must be transcribed, the transcript must be certified as
accurate by the judge or court reporter, and both the certified transcript and the
original voice recording must be filed with the court.
This bill removes the requirement that the original recording be filed along
with the certified transcript of the testimony that forms the basis of an application
for a search warrant.