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Section 15-5-40 - stored wire and electronic communications and transactional records access; pen registers and trap and trace devices.

AL Code § 15-5-40 (2019) (N/A)
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(a) The definitions, prohibitions, authorizations, and procedures regarding access to stored wire and electronic communications and transactional records and the installation or use of pen registers or trap and trace devices shall be adopted and coextensive with the provisions of the federal law defined at Chapters 121 and 206 of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2701-2712 and 3121-3127, and as those provisions may hereafter be amended.

(b) Emergency pen registers and trap and trace devices may be installed pursuant to the provisions of the federal law defined in Title 18, United States Code, Section 3125, as it may hereafter be amended, provided the investigative or law enforcement officer declaring the emergency has been specially authorized and designated in writing by the Attorney General, district attorney, or city attorney, if authorized to prosecute felony offenses, with prosecuting jurisdiction over the offense, investigation, defendant, or provider of wire or electronic communications service whose assistance is required.

(c) An emergency declared or order issued under the combined authority of the provisions of federal law defined at Chapters 121 and 206 of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2701-2712 and 3121-3127, may authorize disclosure of call-identifying addressing, routing, or signaling information that may disclose the physical location of the subscriber, customer, or user of a wire or electronic communications service.

(d) An emergency may be declared in those situations involving the disappearance of an individual, the report of a runaway child, or report of a missing person for which no criminal charge may be readily apparent but where the individual may be in danger based on, but not limited to, the age, physical condition, or circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the individual. The situation will authorize the installation of pen registers and trap and trace devices and disclosure of call-identifying addressing, routing, or signaling information that may disclose the physical location of the subscriber, customer, or user of a wire or electronic communications service.

(e) Orders or search warrants, or both, issued pursuant to this section are expressly allowed to be prospective in nature and these orders or search warrants, or both, are allowed to be executed during the day and night. Further, an inventory of the information obtained pursuant to an order or search warrant issued pursuant to this section related to electronic storage media or the seizure or copying of electronically stored information may be limited to describing the physical storage media that was seized or copied. Within 10 days after the expiration of the order or search warrant issued pursuant to this section, law enforcement must return the order or search warrant to the judge designated in the order or search warrant, and, if unavailable, to another judge with jurisdiction.

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Section 15-5-40 - stored wire and electronic communications and transactional records access; pen registers and trap and trace devices.