Missouri’s incarnation of what’s known as “Kelsey’s Law” is effective Tuesday....
Missouri’s incarnation of what’s known as “Kelsey’s Law” is effective Tuesday. The bill, HB-1108, was signed by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) July 6 and “requires specified telecommunications carrier and commercial mobile service providers to provide, upon request, call location…
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information concerning the user of a telecommunications service or a wireless communications service to a law enforcement official or agency” (http://xrl.us/bnnead). This disclosure is, according to the law, “in order to respond to a call for emergency service or to provide caller location information in an emergency situation that involves danger of death or serious physical injury to any person where disclosure of communications relating to an emergency is required without delay.” Missouri is the eighth state to issue such a law. It’s dubbed Kelsey’s Law in memory of Kansas teenager Kelsey Smith, abducted and murdered in 2007, as recounted by the Kelsey Smith Foundation (http://xrl.us/bnnea2).