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SALT LAKE CITY A digital transformative and abolition criminology conference co-hosted by Salt Lake Community College and the University of Utah was hacked Friday by a group of individuals who displayed anti-Black and sexually explicit language as well as inappropriate pictures of children.
The hack comes just two weeks after a virtual poetry slam that was part of Black History Month events was similarly infiltrated.
According to SLCC Chief Diversity Officer Dr. Lea Lani Kinikini, the national conference was inundated with approximately 20 individuals who displayed inappropriate pictures of children, as well as broadcasted audio saying white lives matter and all lives matter. Additionally, the group continually used racial slurs and anti-Black language leading Kinikini and other attendees to presume it was a group of white supremacists.
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The financial firm Morgan Stanley is predicting coal will leave the U.S. Energy sector by 2033. This story and more in the Thursday morning news brief.
Thursday morning, February 4, 2021
State
Ranked Choice Voting
Rep. Mike Winder, R-West Valley City, is running a bill to implement ranked-choice voting in all of Utah’s primary elections. Ranked-choice voting allows people to list candidates in order of preference, and once a candidate is eliminated, their vote goes to whoever was next on their ballot. The state county clerks association opposes the bill, and said the system wouldn’t have a big effect on election outcomes in Utah. Winder’s bill calls for $500,000 dollars to educate voters and $4,000 to upgrade voting software.
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University of Utah Police Chief Rodney Chatman took over the department in January, and many were hopeful he’d help address campus safety concerns and rebuild student trust in the wake of Lauren McCluskey’s murder.
University of Utah Police Chief Rodney Chatman has been placed on administrative leave, according to the school’s communications director Chris Nelson.
Chatman was hired in January, taking over the department as it faced criticism for its handling of the on-campus murder of 21-year-old student athlete Lauren McCluskey in October 2018.
While university officials initially did not offer details about the reasons behind Chatman’s leave, the U’s Chief Safety Officer Marlon Lynch sent a statement late Friday evening which said it was because Chatman was being investigated by the Utah State Attorney General’s Office on allegations Chatman “may have violated certain guidelines that are also criminal offenses.”