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Law Enforcement

ACLU Seeks Info on Automatic License Plate Readers

May 29, 2012 Whittney Evans

The ACLU of Utah has filed an open-records request to learn more about how law enforcement agencies in the state are using automatic license plate readers. The request was submitted to the Utah Highway Patrol, the Ogden Police Department and the Iron County Sheriff’s Office. John Mejia, Legal Director of ACLU of Utah, says the organization is against the devices in general because of the privacy abuses they could produce.

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State Prison System Will Be Full by 2015, Officials Tell Lawmakers

May 16, 2012 Whittney Evans

About 80 percent of those who are incarcerated in Utah suffer from some sort of addiction and a third of inmates are sex offenders, state corrections officials told Utah lawmakers yesterday. And Mike Haddon, Deputy Director of the Department of Corrections, says since 1982, the incarceration rate has grown by 408 percent. He says typically, the state contracts with county sheriffs for additional beds, but they anticipate the prison system will occupy all of them by 2015. So what does the state do after that?

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More Heavy Enforcement Coming to Parley’s Historic Nature Park

May 3, 2012 Jessica Gail

Law enforcement officers are getting more serious about enforcing the rules at Parley’s Historic Nature Park. Beginning Monday, Salt Lake County Councilman Steve DeBry, who is also a Unified Police Department Deputy Chief, says the UPD will begin writing tickets to visitors who don’t follow regulations, rather than just issuing a warning.

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Salt Lake Police Department Holds SWAT Tryouts

April 24, 2012 Jessica Gail

This week police officers interested in joining the Salt Lake City Police Department’s SWAT team are attending SWAT school. Fifteen officers from seven different agencies are being tested physically, emotionally and academically to see if they have what it takes to join the unit. Tactical Commander Rich Brede says the candidates are doing drills 15 hours a day and they’re not easy.

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Tribune Hopes for Powell Investigation Documents in Open Records Request

April 11, 2012 Jeff Robinson

After having an open records request denied, the Salt Lake Tribune made its case before the West Valley City Council this week to have the city release all its documents regarding the investigation into the disappearance of Susan Cox Powell, who was last seen in December 2009. Her husband, Josh Powell, who killed himself and the couple’s two young children earlier this year, was the only person of interest in the case.

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Human Trafficking Conference Begins Today in Salt Lake City

April 10, 2012 Jessica Gail

Law enforcement leaders and victims’ rights advocates from across North America are gathering in Salt Lake City today. The 2012 Trafficking in Persons Symposium will look at how to bring more awareness to the problem and hold traffickers more accountable. Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who will speak at the event, says trafficking happens in Utah every day.

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