Search warrants: privacy.

Existing law provides that a search warrant may only be issued upon probable cause, supported by affidavit, naming or describing the person to be searched or searched for, and particularly describing the property, thing or things, and the place to be searched. Existing federal law authorizes, except as specified, the Attorney General of the United States and Director of National Intelligence to authorize, for a period of up to one year, the targeting of persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States to acquire foreign intelligence information. Existing federal law authorizes the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or his or her designee, to make an application for an order requiring the production of any tangible things, as specified, for an investigation to obtain foreign intelligence information not concerning a United States person or to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities. This bill would prohibit a state agency, political subdivision of the state, or officer or employee thereof, or a corporation providing services on behalf of the state or a political subdivision from providing services to, or utilizing any assets, state funds, or funds allocated by the state to local entities to engage in activities that aid a federal agency, federal agent, or corporation providing services to the federal government involved in the collection of electronic data or metadata of any person pursuant to an action not based on a valid warrant, as specified. The bill would also prohibit those entities from providing material support, participation, or assistance to a federal agency or pursuant to federal law that purports to authorize the collection of that same data without a valid warrant. The bill would establish specified penalties for violations of its provisions, including withholding state grant funds from a political subdivision of the state that adopts an ordinance, resolution, or policy in violation of the provisions described above. This bill would provide that its provisions are severable.