The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) may take the state of Utah to court over access to a controlled-substance database, The Salt Lake Tribune reports. After discovering inappropriate access to the database, Sen. Todd Weiler (R-UT) sponsored a bill requiring law enforcement agencies “to get a warrant from a judge before searching the registry,” the report states. “But the DEA contends that it should be able to access the records with a simple administrative subpoena—essentially a demand for information that the law enforcement agency can issue itself, without judicial review,” the report states. “I think it's very disappointing that the federal government thinks they're somehow exempt from the Fourth Amendment,” Weiler said.
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