Tribune Editorial: Getting a warrant should be harder than it is

Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune Utah Rep. Marc K. Roberts presents his draft legislation on the prohibition on electronic data collection assistance to the Public Utilities and Technology Interim Committee, November 19, 2014.Work by Salt Lake Tribune reporters Jessica Miller and Aubrey Wieber revealed this past weekend a shockingly short turnaround for court approval of warrant requests — 27 seconds in one instance, 38 seconds in another. There is just not enough time to read a warrant’s particulars in that amount of time. Yet judges approved them.

While there were only two dozen warrants, out of 8,400 electronic warrants in the last 12 months, granted in a under a minute, more than…