HB81 Summary

• Adopts and makes Alabama's laws coextensive with federal law regarding stored wire and electronic communications, transactional records, pen registers, and trap and trace devices under 18 U.S.C. Chapters 121 and 206, Sections 2707-2712 and 3121-3127.

• Authorizes emergency installation of pen registers and trap and trace devices under 18 U.S.C. Section 3125 when an investigative or law enforcement officer is specially authorized in writing by the Attorney General, district attorney, or city attorney with felony prosecuting jurisdiction.

• Permits emergency declarations for missing person reports, runaway children, or disappearances where individuals may be in danger based on age, physical condition, or circumstances, even without an apparent criminal charge.

• Allows disclosure of call-identifying addressing, routing, or signaling information that may reveal physical location of wire or electronic communications service subscribers, customers, or users when an emergency is declared.

• Permits orders or search warrants to be prospective and executed day or night, with inventory of seized electronically stored information limited to describing physical storage media; law enforcement must return the order or warrant within 10 days of expiration.