Have a question about crime or an issue in your community? An officer from the Salt Lake City Police Department wants to chat with you. This Thursday the Salt Lake City Police Department will launch “Coffee with a Cop” a new community outreach program. Veronica Montoia, Public Information Officer for the Department says this anyone who meets with an officer will receive a free cup of coffee.
The investigation continues into the disappearance of Brooklyn Gittins, the 13-year-old Herriman girl who sparked a wide spread search earlier this week. Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder says Gittins was found unharmed at a Wal-Mart in South Jordan Thursday night.
Clearfield Representative Paul Ray wants to give gun owners more freedom. The Republican lawmaker is running a bill in the upcoming legislative session that would prohibit a person who is lawfully carrying a firearm in public from being charged with non-firearm related crimes like disorderly conduct.
Utah residents love their guns. The state has some of the loosest gun laws in the country and is home to the third largest unregulated arms market in the country- KSL.com. So, where does this love come from? KCPW’s Jessica Gail spoke with Mary Malouf of Salt Lake Magazine who answers that question in her recent article ‘Gun Lovin’ Utah.’
It’s bigger, safer, and more energy efficient’ and now, Salt Lake City’s new Public Safety Building is inching closer to being complete. Thursday, KCPW’s Jessica Gail took a tour of the city’s $125 million dollar project and reports on what residents can expect when it’s complete in the spring.
Nine hundred thousand dollars. That money is coming to Salt Lake City to help fight domestic violence thanks to the U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. The grant was awarded yesterday to the Salt Lake Area Family Justice Center. but as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, more than a dozen agencies around the Salt Lake Valley will use the money to provide domestic violence outreach.
Law enforcement and public safety issues took center stage in Utah’s 4th District congressional race Thursday. Democratic incumbent Jim Matheson and Salt Lake County Sheriff Jim Winder met to defend federal grants to Utah’s public safety agencies, and as KCPW’s Jessica Gail reports, they accuse GOP candidate Mia Love of putting them in jeopardy.
After a week of deliberating, the West Valley City Council announced last night it will not be releasing any files relating to the disappearance of Susan Cox Powell. Mayor Pro Tem Corey Rushton said the council came to the unanimous decision after viewing the police files themselves.
Ammunition is making it difficult for firefighters to battle a wildfire burning on the Utah National Guard’s Camp Williams, just outside of Eagle Mountain. Spokesman Lt. Col. Hank McIntire says areas of the base are filled with thousands of undetonated shells that have been there for decades.
The impact of Sunday’s massacre at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin by a white supremacist hit especially hard for Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill. Gill says as an American citizen and a member of the Sikh faith himself, he is both outraged and saddened by the events that occurred. He says hate crimes not only affect the immediate victims but also those who belong to community.
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