SALT LAKE CITY It s one of the first things new cadets learn when they go through the Peace Officer Standards and Training course to become certified law enforcers in Utah:
Don t use your police laptop to access personal information about people whom you aren t investigating as part of your job.
That s why the top brass with the certification agency and the Utah Department of Public Safety say it s very concerning that they are seeing an increase in the number of officers who are illegally accessing protected police records including to check backgrounds on people they are dating or want to date.
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.
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2020/12/29 17:17 President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater on Dec. 28, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen theater on Dec. 28, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP photo) With only a few weeks to go before Joseph Biden becomes president of the United States, Taiwan’s American friends need to press hard for the policies we want to see the new administration pursue toward Taiwan.
Most important, we must continue to strengthen Taiwan’s security As Randall Schriver, chairman of the Project 2049 Institute, and Ian Easton, senior director at the same institute, have recently reiterated, we must counter the enormous military threat the People’s Republic of China (PRC) poses to Taiwan, Asia, the United States, and the world.