SACRAMENTO — Representatives of prosecutors and sheriffs on Monday expressed skepticism about a state senator’s latest legislative effort to require police to obtain warrants before searching emails, texts, location data and other electronic information.
Law enforcement opposition played a key role in Gov. Jerry Brown’s vetoes of three related pieces of legislation introduced between 2011 and 2013. But leaders of the district attorneys’ and sheriffs’ lobbies said they were not involved in drafting Senate Bill 178 nor had they seen language in the bill, which would restrict access to information stored on cellphones, laptops and other devices.
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