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US AOC 2008 wiretap report online

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The U.S. AOC wiretap report is online here. Wiretaps are not cheap: pdf page 11: Table 5 provides a summary of expenses related to intercept orders in 2008. The expenditures noted reflect the cost of installing intercept devices and monitoring communications for the 1,703 authorizations for which reports included cost data. The average cost of intercept devices installed in 2008 was $47,624, down 2 percent from the average cost in 2007. For federal wiretaps for which expenses were reported in 2008, the average cost was $70,536, a 7 percent increase from the average cost in 2007. The average cost of a state wiretap declined 6 percent to $41,154 in 2008. Convictions from wiretaps are a near certainty, but not all defendants.

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).