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LA SB53

Bill

Status

Passed

6/4/2025

Primary Sponsor

Adam Bass

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Origin

Senate

2025 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Defines "monitoring post" as a secure Department of Public Safety and Corrections facility, including Louisiana State Police facilities, that has investigative control over communication intercepts regardless of geographic location

  • Requires each warrant authorizing interception of wire, electronic, or oral communications to specify the specific location of the monitoring post

  • Changes informant presentation requirements from mandatory ("shall be presented") to discretionary ("judge may order") when informant statements are used to establish reasonable grounds for a warrant

  • Requires the warrant application to state whether an informant was presented to the judge and sworn, if the judge ordered such presentation

  • Directs the Louisiana State Law Institute to alphabetize the definitions in R.S. 15:1302; effective August 1, 2025

Legislative Description

Provides relative to warrants for interception of communications. (8/1/25)

LAW ENFORCEMENT

Last Action

Effective date 8/1/2025.

6/4/2025

Committee Referrals

Administration of Criminal Justice4/29/2025
Judiciary B4/1/2025

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