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Press Releases
Salt Lake County Must Appoint Counsel for Child Abuse Substantiation Hearings (12/3/02)

The ACLU of Utah Questions Proposed Database for all Arrestees (8/10/99)

Litigation
State of Utah v. Paul Johnson

Femedeer v. Department of Corrections

Crank v. Utah Judicial Council

State of Utah v. Simmons and State of Utah v. Gardner

Legal Advocacy and Policy Work
ACLU of Utah writes Kanab mayor about the lack of Fourth Amendment protections in the city’s new animal control ordinance (6/8/06)

Letter to the Salt Lake Valley Detention Center regarding the detention of minors without parental notification (2/20/04)

Letter to Judge Kevin Christensen regarding Trent M. Brown and unpaid fine for citations including illegal dumping, parking a trailer, and a violation of UDOT right of way (10/3/03)

ACLU of Utah sends legislative interim committee a review of the proposed amendments to the law regarding sentencing in capital cases (9/17/02)

In a letter to the Utah Supreme Court, the ACLU of Utah outlines the effects of Alabama v. Shelton (7/1/02)

ACLU of Utah urges Senator Orrin Hatch to attend a hearing on the death penalty (6/10/02)

ACLU of Utah sends a letter to Governor Leavitt and GRAMA requests to the 8th District Drug Court and Uintah County Jail in order to address due process concerns posed by the drug court’s testing facilities (6/10/02)

In a Letter to the Salt Lake City Council, the ACLU of Utah Questions the Proposed Administrative Law Division (11/9/99)

From Our Legislative Reports
Two Bills that Sought to Expand the Death Penalty Are Amended to Address Constitutional Concerns (2007)

Legislators Consider Two Bills to Help Inmates Who Have Been Wrongly Convicted (2007)

New Law Bans Convicted Sex Offenders From Some Public Areas (2007)

Legislature Finally Funds the Drug Offender Reform Act (2007)

Lawmakers Change Penalties for Drug and Alcohol Crimes (2005)

No Resources Allocated to Provide Treatment for Drug Offenders (2005)

Legislators Consider Drug Offender Reform Act (2004)

Three Bills Amend Utah’s Death Penalty Law (2004)

Sentencing in Capital Cases Amendments Passed (2003)

Mental Retardation to be Considered in Capital Offenses (2002)

Sex Offender Registration Requirements Modified (2002)

Law Passed Requiring Warrants in More Child Removal Cases (2002)

Lawmakers Expand State’s DNA Database (2002)

Sex Offender Registry Becomes Even More Expansive (2001)

Bill Provides Some Reform to State Sex Offender Registry (2000)

Rules Regarding the State Child Abuse Database Are Modified (1999)

State Now Will Maintain Database of Teachers Accused But Not Necessarily Convicted of Certain Crimes (1999)

The State Child Abuse Database Continues to Pose Due Process Concerns

Resources
Detention Prior to Preliminary Proceedings in Utah (Spring 2003)

The Warrantless Removal of Children (January 2002)

Information About Utah’s Sex Offender Registry (December 2000)
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