Bill Sponsor
California Senate Bill 918
Session 20232024
Law enforcement contact process: search warrants.
Became Law
Became Law
Became Law on Sep 29, 2024
First Action
Jan 10, 2024
Latest Action
Sep 29, 2024
Origin Chamber
Senate
Type
Bill
Bill Number
918
State
California
Session
20232024
Sponsorship by Party
Democrat
Author
Republican
Coauthor
Democrat
Coauthor
Summary
Existing law generally regulates a social media platform, including by requiring a social media platform to clearly and conspicuously state whether it has a mechanism for reporting violent posts that is available to users and nonusers of the social media platform and to include a link to that reporting mechanism, as prescribed. This bill would require a social media platform to maintain a law enforcement contact process that, among other things, makes available a staffed hotline for law enforcement personnel for purposes of receiving, and responding to, requests for information. The bill would, except as prescribed, also require a social media platform to comply with a search warrant within 72 hours if the search warrant is provided to the social media platform by a law enforcement agency, the subject of the search warrant is information associated with an account on the social media platform, and that information is controlled by a user of the social media platform. This bill would not apply to a social media platform with fewer than 1,000,000 discrete monthly users and would make its provisions operative on July 1, 2025.
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Jan 11, 2024 12:17:26 PM
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Oct 10, 2024 12:29:42 PM