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as technology has progressed so has the ability to reduce the amount of time for a peace officer to obtain a search warrant the texas code of criminal procedure lays out specific steps for obtaining a search warrant using means such as telephones email document scans fax and internet video conferencing according to the code of criminal procedure a magistrate may consider information communicated by telephone or other reliable electronic means in such an instance a peace officer will first prepare an affidavit for a search warrant and then send it to the magistrate by for instance email document scan or fax after sending the affidavit the peace officer who prepared it must contact the magistrate by for instance phone or internet video conferencing and read the affidavit verbatim using the peace officer's copy of the affidavit which is called a proposed duplicate original the proposed duplicate original must be later submitted to the district or county clerk so in other words it has to be retained by the peace officer to submit at a later time the copy of the affidavit received by the magistrate by again something like email or fax is considered part of the original search warrant once the magistrate receives the affidavit which again is referred to by the ccp as part of the original search warrant the magistrate will read it to himself or herself next once connected by phone or internet video conferencing but prior to the peace officer reading the proposed duplicate original out loud the ccp states the magistrate may ask the peace officer questions the answers to these questions or discussion between the peace officer and magistrate is considered additional testimony if this is done the magistrate must place the peace officer under oath over the phone or internet video conferencing first if the magistrate does consider additional testimony or exhibits prior to the peace officer reading the affidavit out loud the magistrate must record it verbatim by a device court reporter or in writings and then later ensure the recording is transcribed and certified finally the magistrate must sign and certify the accuracy of the record and ensure the exhibits are preserved during the course of the discussion between the magistrate and peace officer over the phone or internet video teleconferencing the magistrate may modify the affidavit if so the magistrate must transmit the modifications to the peace officer and instruct the peace officer to make the modifications to their duplicate original once again both of these the duplicate and the original must both be filed with a county or district clerk if the applicant attests to the affidavit the magistrate must acknowledge it in writing on the original finally a magistrate who issues a search warrant electronically must sign the original documents enter the date and time of issuance on the warrant and transmit the completed and signed warrant to the applicant