assembly Bill A3306

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibits the use of reverse location and reverse keyword searches

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Feb 02, 2023 referred to codes

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A3306 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S217
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 695 §§695.00 - 695.50, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10246, S8183
2021-2022: A84, S296

A3306 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the search, with or without a warrant, of geolocation and keyword data of a group of people who are under no individual suspicion of having committed a crime, but rather are defined by having been at a given location at a given time or searched particular words, phrases, character strings, or websites.

A3306 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3306
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. SOLAGES, L. ROSENTHAL, EPSTEIN, HYNDMAN, OTIS,
   SIMON, JACKSON, SEAWRIGHT, HEVESI, WALKER, DICKENS,  HUNTER,  FORREST,
   MAMDANI,  TAYLOR,  AUBRY,  CARROLL  --  read  once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation  to  prohibiting
   the search, with or without a warrant, of geolocation and keyword data
   of  a  group of people who are under no individual suspicion of having
   committed a crime, but rather are defined by having been  at  a  given
   location  at a given time or searched particular words, phrases, char-
   acter strings, or websites
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "reverse location and reverse keyword search prohibition act".
   § 2. The criminal procedure law is amended by adding a new article 695
 to read as follows:
                                ARTICLE 695
               REVERSE LOCATION AND REVERSE KEYWORD SEARCHES
 SECTION 695.00 DEFINITIONS.
         695.10 ISSUANCE OF REVERSE LOCATION  COURT  ORDERS  AND  REVERSE
                  KEYWORD COURT ORDERS.
         695.20 EXECUTION OF REVERSE LOCATION AND REVERSE KEYWORD SEARCH-
                  ES.
         695.30 REVERSE    LOCATION   AND   REVERSE   KEYWORD   SEARCHES;
                  SUPPRESSION OF EVIDENCE.
         695.40 REVERSE LOCATION AND REVERSE  KEYWORD  SEARCHES;  PRIVATE
                  RIGHT OF ACTION.
         695.50 PHYSICAL SEARCHES EXCLUDED.
         695.60 SEVERABILITY.
 § 695.00 DEFINITIONS.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01981-01-3
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