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- News, Cover Story September 18, 2024
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New data tool allows journalists and the public to track 'wandering cops' in Utah
Patrolling Misconduct
- In September 2019, the Logan City Police Department hired Officer Miguel Deras, who had recently left the University of Utah's campus police. Police officers move from job to job just like anyone else, but Deras was not like anyone else.
- News, Cover Story December 13, 2023
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One of Utah's best-known police chiefs had a decadeslong side career defending police misconduct.
Use of Force
- His stature is perhaps a natural denouement to a lengthy career in law enforcement, which he began in the 1970s working as a security guard while a student at Brigham Young University.
- News, Cover Story May 26, 2021
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Pride Issue 2021
- No matter where you get your Pride on, the sight of seeing so many effervescent souls converging in varying stages of dress and undress is indescribably powerful. That ribald "rainbow spirit" is outrageous, playful and proud.
- News, Cover Story April 28, 2021
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How Do You Spell Releaf?
Part 2 You can now buy medical cannabis in Utah. Just don’t spark it up.
- Now that Utah has a medical cannabis program, it should be easy for anyone to sign up and start smoking, right? Wrong. There are plenty more steps and hoops to jump through before you're able to even visit a pharmacy.
- News, Cover Story April 21, 2021
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Get on the Canna-bus
Navigating Utah's tangled medical cannabis byways. Part 1
- Remember the heady days of 2018? When 53 percent of Utah voters passed Proposition 2, allowing the use of medical cannabis by qualified Utah patients? Voters even "green-lit" the growing of up to six plants for certain patients' personal use.
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New data tool allows journalists and the public to track 'wandering cops' in Utah
Patrolling Misconduct
September 18, 2024
