Washington ? The number of court-authorized wiretaps jumped 19 percent last year as investigators pursued drug and other cases against increasingly tech-savvy suspects. Every surveillance request made by authorities was granted.

Federal and state judges approved 1,710 applications for wiretaps of wire, oral or electronic communications last year, and four states — New York, California, New Jersey and Florida — accounted for three of every four surveillance orders, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. That agency is required to collect the figures and report them to Congress.

The numbers, released Thursday, do not include court orders for terror-related investigations under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, which reached a record 1,754 warrants last year, according to the Justice Department.

In nonterrorist criminal investigations, federally approved wiretaps increased 26 percent in a year, to 730 applications, while state judges approved 980 wiretaps, an increase of 13 percent.

Timothy Edgar, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, said traditional law enforcement work was catching up with increases in anti-terror wiretaps.

“We’re still seeing a huge trend toward increased surveillance,” Edgar said.

Officials said most of the applications — 1,308 — were for drug investigations, while racketeering or gambling wiretaps accounted for a combined 128 wiretaps across the country.