You can mess up a really important case. We have seen evidence contaminated in homicide cases, and we don't want this same kind of thing happening in technology crimes because police officers are not trained. Trained officers combined with new legal powers to act swiftly can lead to identification of suspects as well as determine the losses or damage caused by the hackers as they invade complex information storage systems. The same thing applies to an Internet service provider. Delays in securing subpoenas caused by courts being closed at night or on weekends are curbed by the new provisions.
Prosecutors can now issue subpoenas.
Thackeray cited school threat cases. In one instance, she said, a Scottsdale campus had to shut down temporarily because Internet mail was received stating there were bombs planted. In this case, a series of delays were encountered because subpoenas were required for first one Internet service provider, and then another. Fast action is needed. The legislation, which also better defines computer crimes, followed incidents that were handled poorly because of limitations in the law.