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By January 1, 2027, this bill would require every local law enforcement agency in Utah — including city and county police departments — to have some form of mobile device forensics capability, meaning the tools and expertise to extract and examine digital evidence from phones and tablets. Each agency would need to either build its own in-house capability, enter into a sharing agreement with another agency or entity, or qualify as a "participating agency" by providing or paying for trained personnel to staff the FBI-partnered Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory for at least 2,000 hours per year. Regardless of which option an agency chooses, it could still turn to that FBI lab to use self-serve equipment or to access advanced forensic services in cases where standard tools have failed or would fail to retrieve evidence from a device.