MN HF2639

Wireless telecommunications service providers must provide call location information to law enforcement agencies upon receipt of a written request in emergency situations involving risk of death or serious physical harm to a person with a telecommunications device.

"Call location information" is defined as information indicating the geographical location of a telecommunications device, and applies to commercial mobile radio services and wireless radio telephone services doing business in Minnesota.

Wireless service providers must establish protocols governing their response to law enforcement requests for call location information under this section.

Service providers and their officers, employees, and agents are granted immunity from lawsuits for providing call location information while acting in good faith and according to this section.

The Bureau of Criminal Apprehension must obtain and maintain contact information for all wireless telecommunications service providers authorized to do business in Minnesota and disseminate this information quarterly (or immediately when changes occur) to all public safety answer points in the state.