California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) vetoed a bill that...
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) vetoed a bill that would require a search warrant for government entities to obtain electronic communications from carriers. Within three days after a government entity receives such content from a service provider, it would be…
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required to give the subscriber a copy of the warrant and a notice, under Senate Bill 467. Brown said Saturday he vetoed the bill because it requires “law enforcement agencies to obtain a search warrant when seeking access to electronic communications” (http://bit.ly/GWT01I). Federal law requires a search warrant, subpoena or court order. and this bill “imposes new notice requirements that go beyond those required by federal law and could impede ongoing criminal investigations,” said Brown. On Thursday, he vetoed two bills related to the state’s LifeLine program and the purchase of prepaid cellphone minutes. Assembly Bill 1409 would have limited some of the Public Utilities Commission’s powers to adopt new rules for its LifeLine program. Brown vetoed the bill because of an open PUC proceeding to revise the state’s LifeLine program to allow non-traditional carriers to participate in the program, he said in a written statement (http://bit.ly/16dP1DT). “The last minute amendments included in this bill would legislatively preempt the outcome of this proceeding that has taken public comment from hundreds of California citizens.” AB-300 would create an additional system for collecting and remitting fees, surcharges and taxes applicable to prepaid mobile phone services where these charges would be collected from prepaid customers and remitted to the Board of Equalization and the fees from postpaid customers continue to be collected by the PUC, State 911 Fund and local governments, said Brown. AB-300 is “duplicative, complex and will result in significant and unnecessary costs to the state,” he said in a statement (http://bit.ly/1gHWyCw).