Alaska House votes to give police warrantless emergency access to cellphone location data • Alaska Beacon

Under legislation passed Thursday by the Alaska House of Representatives, police searching for a lost hiker could obtain cell phone and satellite phone location data without a warrant. The House approved House Bill 316 by a 38-1 margin after moving it forward with unusual speed, and the Senate has referred to its state affairs committee for further discussion. The measure is modeled after similar laws in other states and is known as the “Kelsey Smith Act.” Smith was an 18-year-old who was abducted and murdered in Kansas in 2007, and...