Justice and Due Process

Facial recognition is an exciting technology in a commercial or research context, but becomes scarier when in the hands of law enforcement. More problematic is the fact that Utah officials have been using this technology without any law governing its use—only their own internal policies that they alone control.
Utah lawmakers will be presented a simple question in January: should police officers be able to go on fishing expeditions in privately owned or crowd-sourced DNA databases?
Salt Lake County is reducing penalties for thousands of drug conviction cases.
In fact, patients are being helped right now; thousands of Utahns currently have legal protections to use their medical cannabis. Those protections were augmented just this week. And the program is unfolding at the speed we envisioned under Prop 2
A Utah mother is being targeted by a judge for having THC in her system, despite being legally allowed to.
The reason that a judge issued a forcible entry warrant pertained to drugs 78 percent of the time.

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