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2022 Wiretap Report

Excerpt:  “A total of 2,406 wiretaps were reported as authorized in 2022, compared with 2,245 the previous year. Of those, 1,274 were authorized by federal judges, a 16 percent increase from 2021. State judges authorized 1,132 wiretaps, a 1 percent decrease from the previous year. Portable devices, which includes cell phones, accounted for 96 percent of applications for intercepts.”