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Deseret News Share this story Steve Griffin, Deseret News PROVO — The Utah Department of Public Safety announced Tuesday that it will not appeal a recent ruling that allows BYU to keep its police department. Commissioner Jess Anderson on Tuesday sent a letter to Chris Autry, the managing director of the Brigham Young University Police Department, stating, “I have chosen not to pursue an appeal of Judge Catten’s order on your motion for summary judgment. “The decision to decertify BYUPD was difficult and weighed heavily on me, but I was left with no alternative, given the evolution of...

BYU will keep police department after judge ruling SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Brigham Young University in Utah says it will keep its police department after an administrative law judge threw out a case in which state officials sought to take away the campus’ rights to police itself. The decision Tuesday came two years after the state Department of Public Safety said it would decertify the BYU police department after the department did not conduct an adequate internal investigation into a lieutenant who inappropriately accessed police reports and gave sensitive information to the school’s Hon...

BYU will keep its police department, after a judge dismisses Utah’s decertification efforts Jessica Miller © Rick Egan (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The police station at Brigham Young University on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Brigham Young University will keep its police department after an administrative law judge took the surprising step of tossing the case where state officials had sought to strip the private campus of its policing powers. Brigham Young University will keep its police department after an administrative law judge took the surprising step of tossing ...

PROVO — Brigham Young University will be allowed to keep its police department after an administrative judge dismissed the Department of Public Safety's motion to decertify the department. The judge's ruling, signed on Monday, comes nearly two years after the university received a letter from the Department of Public Safety on Feb. 20, 2019, claiming that BYU police had not met "certification criteria" required by Utah state law. The department wrote that due to its failure of "certification criteria" the state would decertify the police department. Related Story BYU didn't 'act like a poli...

Judge won't decertify BYU PD over Honor Code investigations KSTU and last updated 2021-01-06 00:23:28-05 SALT LAKE CITY — An administrative law judge has decided against decertifying Brigham Young University's police force. In an order issued Tuesday night, Administrative Law Judge Richard Catten granted BYU's request to dismiss the case, but also sided in part with Utah's Department of Public Safety, The judge essentially declared that while DPS wanted The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' private university to act like other police forces — the law at the time didn't n...