The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Carpenter v. United States requiring warrants for historical cell-site location information is reverberating in state capitals. Some states have taken the lead in updating laws requiring local law enforcement to have a warrant to acquire certain electronic non-content data and placing restrictions on how that data is to be handled. 

Last month, Utah enacted a bill requiring local law enforcement to show probable cause and obtain a search warrant for electronic data transmitted by its owner to a “remote computing service provider” or for an electronic device’s stored data or location information.