S2706 grants the state’s attorney general the ability to apply ex parte to a court for an order authorizing the “interception of any wire, electronic, or oral communications” based on alleged felony violations of the Uniform Act on Prevention for Human Trafficking.
The House passed S2706 on May 31, 2022, by a vote of 66 to 0. We have assigned minuses to the yeas because this bill expands the government’s ability to conduct unconstitutional “secret searches” of American citizens without providing them notice of lawful authority or purpose. It undermines the rights of the people guaranteed specifically by the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.