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Tenth Amendment Center
JEFFERSON CITY,
Mo., May 16, 2014 – Legislation to protect electronic communications
and data was given final approval by the Missouri State Senate today.
Because it is a proposal for a state constitutional amendment, it will
now bypass the Governor’s desk, instead going directly to the People on
the ballot this November.
When
proponents of mass, warrantless surveillance are backed into a corner
on the basis that such activities violate the 4th Amendment’s warrant
requirements, they often make the claim that electronic data is outside
the scope of the amendment because it doesn’t qualify as “persons,
houses, papers, or effects.”
Instead
of worrying about a long legal debate with opponents who likely hold a
political agenda, the Missouri legislature took a different path. They
passed legislation to expressly give “electronic data and
communications” the same state constitutional protections as “persons,
homes, papers and effects.”
Introduced by Sen. Rob Schaaf, Senate Joint Resolution 27 (SJR27) was passed by the full House today. It previously passed the Senate by a vote of 31-1.
The
text of SJR27 is short and concise, replacing the “privacy rights”
section in the state constitution with the following language adding
electronic communications to the objects protected from search or
seizure without a warrant.
“That
the people shall be secure in their persons, papers, homes [and],
effects, and electronic communications and data, from unreasonable
searches and seizures; and no warrant to search any place, or seize any
person or thing, or access electronic data or communication, shall issue
without describing the place to be searched, or the person or thing to
be seized, or the data or communication to be accessed, as nearly as may
be; nor without probable cause, supported by written oath or
affirmation.”
The
effect of this resolution would be significant. The addition of
electronic communications to the list of privacy items would make
emails, phone records, Internet records and other electronic information
gathered without a warrant inadmissible in state court. That would
include data gathered illegally by overzealous state and local law
enforcement as well as the federal government.
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