It could have the answer to a crime, but the Michigan legislature wants to lock that information up with the same protections that any of your other information has.
Representatives want to do it with a constitutional amendment that will protect phones the same way any other evidence is protected.
"They're evolving times and we need our court system to evolve with it," explains Brian Morley, a lawyer.
Under the proposed changes, police won't be able to unlock a phone and look through it under any circumstance without a search warrant.
"We all have an expectation of privacy on our smart phones," believes Morley.
Representatives say the biggest reason they want this amendment is because of a system police can use called "hailfire."
That system, according to representative Tom Barrett, lets phones connect to police as opposed to a cell tower. Then authorities can access call info and other data from there.
The Michigan legislature wants to make sure police have a warrant before they do anything of that sort.
"There's always bad situations, there's always gonna be bad things happening, the more prevalent cell phones are, the more bad things of so many different kinds--let's just slow down a little bit, there's nothing wrong with getting a search warrant before invading somebody's privacy."
