A bill to amend 1966 PA 189, entitled “An act to provide procedures for making complaints for, obtaining, executing and returning search warrants; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 6 (MCL 780.656).
Senate Bill 336 makes the following changes to law: -- Require a law enforcement officer or an individual assisting the officer to wait a reasonable amount of time after announcing him or herself before attempting forceable entry into a house or building upon execution of a search warrant.-- Prescribe circumstances under which an officer executing a search warrant could forcibly enter a house or building without announcing identity and purpose and waiting a reasonable amount of time.-- Require an officer who knew of the existence of a circumstance allowing forcible entry without announcement while requesting a search warrant to include such information in the request and to seek authority to enter without first announcing identity and purpose and waiting a reasonable period of time.-- Require an officer seeking approval to execute a search warrant without first announcing identity and purpose and waiting a reasonable period of time to include specified information in the request, such as a list of all known occupants of the location.-- Unless a different time was requested and authorized, require an officer who had approval to execute a search warrant without announcing identity and purpose and waiting a reasonable amount of time to execute the warrant between 8 AM and 6 PM.-- Require an officer engaged in forcible entry during the execution of a search warrant to be in uniform or otherwise recognizable as an officer.
Co-sponsored by Sens.
Referred to the Committee on Civil Rights, Judiciary, and Public Safety
