Bill Text: WV HB5571 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring law enforcement to obtain a warrant to access certain video survelilance
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-12 - To House Judiciary [HB5571 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB5571-Introduced.html
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 5571
By Delegate Coop-Gonzalez
[Introduced February 12, 2024; Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §62-1A-12, relating to requiring a warrant to access video surveillance in private business or other facilities.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 1A. Search and seizure.
§62-1A-12. Warrant required for accessing video surveillance.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a law-enforcement agency may not obtain, access to a video surveillance, regardless of the purpose, without a warrant, which:
(1) Is funded by a federal entity; or
(2) Has facial recognition capabilities; or
(3) Has an individual's location and stores that data.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require a warrant to access video surveillance in private business or other facilities.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
