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Credit UPR On Monday, the Utah Senate passed three bills that would develop and expand the state’s crisis intervention teams.  Republican Senator Daniel Thatcher from West Valley City sponsored Senate Bill 53, which would allow members of the Emergency Medical Service to be certified in behavioral health training. Sen. Thatcher said while Mobile Crisis Outreach Team intervention proves successful in mitigating harm in a mental or behavioral health crisis, there aren’t enough members to cover the need.    “Those Mobile Crisis Outreach Teams are staffed with licensed clinical social wo...

Deseret News Share this story Forty-four candles line the Capitol steps to represent the number of deaths in 2017 associated with domestic violence. A proposed bill in Utah would enhance the penalty for domestic violence on the third offense, which lawmakers hope will decrease domestic violence deaths in the state. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Senate is poised to pass a bill to enhance the penalty for third-time domestic violence offenders in the hope of lowering the state’s high rate of domestic violence deaths. “Domestic violence is cyclical in nature and...

Lawmakers are considering a task force to look at redesigning the state flag for Utah, though not everyone thinks it’s something that needs to be done.

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Sentencing enhancement modifications pass Utah Senate committee A Senate committee approved a measure last week to modify certain sentencing enhancements.  Senate Bill 188, sponsored by Sen. Daniel Thatcher and Rep. Stephanie Pitcher, would change the applicable offenses for certain crimes committed with other people or by a criminal street gang.  The measure would determine that the enhancements could primarily be used in violent offenses against people and increase the required number of participants involved to three.  SB 188 would also allow judges to apply the enhancement at a sentenc...