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Years after a spate of questionable Utah in-custody deaths, Utah jail operating standards are now public records
The ACLU sought those standards, as well as audits reports of how the jails complied with the standards, after a rash of county jail deaths attracted attention to conditions inside county jails here. The Tribune learned 24 people had died in Utah jails in 2016; two years earlier, Utah had nation’s highest rate of jail inmate fatalities.
Group Backs Challenge to Marsy’s Law
Last week, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri and the Miami Civilian Investigative Panel, which is a police oversight board, also gave notice that they want to file friend-of-the court briefs backing the challenge to the appeals-court ruling. But attorneys for the Tallahassee police officers and the Florida Police Benevolent Association asked the Supreme Court to strike Gualtieri’s notice, saying it was improperly “argumentative.”