DAYTON -- Last year more than two trillion text messages were sent out just in the U.S. and police say a lot of those messages, are crucial to solving crimes.
The National Sheriff's Association and some police agencies want Congress to require cell phone carriers to store text messages for at least two years.
Opponents like the American Civil Liberty Union want to restrict the use of text messages to criminal cases and they want to require that police first get a subpoena.
Law enforcement agencies say it could help them trace back crimes for as far back as two years.
According to the Department of Justice many carriers don't save text messages.
Verizon saves them for up to 5 days.
T-mobile, Sprint, and AT&T don't save any at all.
If passed this would be an amendment to an old Communications Privacy act created back in 1986
The National Sheriff's Association and some police agencies want Congress to require cell phone carriers to store text messages for at least two years.
Opponents like the American Civil Liberty Union want to restrict the use of text messages to criminal cases and they want to require that police first get a subpoena.
Law enforcement agencies say it could help them trace back crimes for as far back as two years.
According to the Department of Justice many carriers don't save text messages.
Verizon saves them for up to 5 days.
T-mobile, Sprint, and AT&T don't save any at all.
If passed this would be an amendment to an old Communications Privacy act created back in 1986
