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(West Valley City, UT) The president of the Salt Lake Branch of the NAACP is running for the state House of Representatives. Longtime civil rights activist Jeanetta Williams filed yesterday to run to represent House District 26. Williams is challenging Republican Representative Matt MacPherson. The West Valley City Republican was picked by GOP delegates
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In an effort to lower the state’s persistently high suicide rate, Utah lawmakers passed a slate of bills that increase access to mental health services, limit firearm access for people in crisis and boost prevention programs.
The legislation comes at a time when many mental health advocates say the pandemic has laid bare the vast amount of need.
“COVID has revealed how problematic it is for a lot of people struggling with mental health issues,” said Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake City.
Utah has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation. And while a Utah Department of Health report recently indicated there was no initial evidence that social distancing and stay-at-home orders had led an increase in distress among Utahns in 2020, advocates say that doesn’t mean social isolation and economic uncertainty hasn’t had an impact on the state’s residents.
Bail reform repeal passes Utah Legislature just months after kicking in
Reforms were meant to stop kicking defendants locked up before trial simply because they couldn’t afford bail. Prosecutors say the new system has worked.
(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Salt Lake County Jail on Friday, March 20, 2020.
| March 3, 2021, 11:36 p.m.
A Utah bill that would dismantle key pieces of last year’s bail reform package is heading to the governor’s desk, with several state senators on Wednesday signing off on the proposal despite their reservations.
State legislators have spent weeks wrestling over whether to repeal or modify the 2020 law that sought to overhaul Utah’s wealth-based system for jailing or freeing people ahead of their trial. Now, they’re moving forward with a hybrid approach that retains some aspects of last year’s law, scraps others and proponents say sets the state up to continue improving the law in the months to come.