criminal justice reform

This bill would help thousands of people by automatically expunging records of those with a past low-level criminal history.
This bill decriminalizes sodomy and adultery and modifies penalties related to a number of crimes.
Providing automatic expungements for people with low level criminal history will affect thousands of Utahn’s lives for generations to come.
Besides over-criminalization and a massive increase in the number of people who enter the criminal justice system, funding for public defenders has been a major problem.
Here's an alternative solution for over-criminalization.
This bill relaxes current statute to make it somewhat easier to become eligible for expungement, not only for prior offenses, but for a prior arrest that does not result in prosecution.

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