Electronic Surveillance
2005 Enacted Legislation
Illinois H.B. 884
Public Act No. 94-183
Permits the interception, recording, or transcription of an electronic communication by an employee of a penal institution (rather than an employee of the Illinois Department of Corrections), provided that the interception, recording, or transcription is: (1) otherwise legally permissible under Illinois law; (2) conducted with the approval of the penal institution (rather than the Illinois Department of Corrections) for the purpose of investigating or enforcing a State criminal law or a penal institution rule or regulation (rather than a Department rule or regulation) with respect to inmates in the penal institution (rather than persons committed to the Illinois Department of Corrections); and (3) within the scope of the employee's official duties.
Maryland H.B. 1208
Chapter No. 421
Adding specified offenses committed with the intention of obstructing justice to those crimes for which evidence may be gathered by interception of oral, wire, or electronic communications..
Maryland H.B. 1218
Chapter No. 615
Adding specified offenses committed with the intention of obstructing justice to those crimes for which application may be made for a court order authorizing the interception of oral, wire, or electronic communications.
Maryland S.B. 548
Chapter No. 491
Making it lawful for a person to intercept a wire, oral, or electronic communication in the course of a law enforcement investigation in order to provide evidence of the commission of vehicle theft if the person is an investigative or law enforcement officer or is acting under the direction of an investigative or law enforcement officer, and the device through which the interception is made has been placed within a vehicle by or at the direction of law enforcement personnel under specified circumstances.
Maryland S.B. 645
Chapter No. 329
Adding specified offenses committed with the intention of obstructing justice to those crimes for which application may be made for a court order authorizing the interception of oral, wire, or electronic communications.
North Carolina S.B. 748
Session Law Number 2005-207
Amends the procedure for implementing orders for electronic surveillance; allows that in certain circumstances it is not necessary to identify the place where the communication will be intercepted by electronic surveillance. Provides the time frame within that the electronic surveillance in an undisclosed location may begin.
Tennessee H.B. 410
Public Chaptered. Chapter No. 87
Allows applications for orders for electronic surveillance in the jurisdiction in which certain supporting offenses occur in addition to the jurisdiction where the interception occurs.
Virginia H.B. 2869
Chapter 0934
Redefines jurisdiction for the purposes of electronic or wire interceptions to provide that such communications shall be deemed to be intercepted in the jurisdiction where the order is entered, regardless of the physical location or the method by which the communication is captured or routed to the monitoring location.
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