Four House lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill to...
Four House lawmakers introduced a bipartisan bill to prevent federal agencies from seizing citizens’ telephone records without a court order. The Telephone Records Protection Act (HR-2014) comes on the heels of the revelation that Justice Department officials seized the telephone…
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records of several Associated Press reporters. The bill would strike from U.S. law a provision that permits the government to demand telephone companies turn over telephone records with an administrative subpoena. Under the bill the government would be required to state “specific and articulable facts” that prove to a court that the information sought is “relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation,” according to a news release. The bill was sponsored by Reps. Jared Polis, D-Colo.; Justin Amash, R-Mich.; Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif.; and Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C.