(INDIANAPOLIS) — Indiana prosecutors could get more resources to go after cybercrimes.
The House unanimously endorsed a plan to create 10 regional task forces to help prosecutors
with high tech crimes. House Republicans’ budget includes $3 million to pay for it.
Avon Republican Greg Steuerwald says the task forces would pursue not only hacking and
identity theft, but low-tech crimes with high-tech evidence, like analyzing cell phone records.
Steuerwald says Saint Joseph and Tippecanoe County prosecutors already have high-tech units
through partnerships with Notre Dame and Purdue. In other counties, he says, prosecutors may
not have the manpower.
A Senate committee is expected to hold a hearing on the proposal next week, though the funding
won’t be finalized until the budget is, at the end of April.
