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It seems like ages ago now that Utah officials were making plans for a massive data-guzzling surveillance program from a company called Banjo, designed to help alert law enforcement to potential crimes as they happen.
The program, promoted aggressively by Attorney General Sean Reyes, fell apart not because of privacy concerns, but because of revelations that the company’s founder was involved in a white supremacist attack on a Jewish synagogue in his youth. Really.
Now he’s poised to do something about it.
Gibson has introduced HB243, which would create a chief privacy officer for the state and a 12-member Personal Privacy Oversight Committee the first of its kind in the United States, according to supporters made up of experts in the field and housed in the Utah State Auditor’s Office.
| Updated: Jan. 22, 2021, 12:52 a.m.
Utah Auditor John Dougall, a man nicknamed “frugal” for his general attitude of moderation, said he’s tried to maintain a balanced view of President Donald Trump by acknowledging the good along with the bad.
But after watching Wednesday’s attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Republican says he’s fed up.
“Trump is seditious and treasonous,” Dougall wrote on Facebook as violence was still roiling the nation’s capital. “He needs to resign or be officially removed from office. Let there be no doubt of my opinion.”
Many Utah lawmakers and elected officials have remained loyal to the president over the last few years even through the Access Hollywood scandal (in which he bragged that his fame gave him the power to grab women “by the p -y”), his impeachment trial and his efforts to overturn the U.S. election results in his favor.
Utah s GOP auditor calls Trump s actions seditious and treasonous
GOP leaders across Utah condemn Capitol riots
Reacting to the violent protests in the nation s capital, Utah State Auditor John Dougall called President Trump seditious and treasonous, and called for him to resign or be removed from office.
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SALT LAKE CITY â Reacting to the violent protests in the nation s capital, Utah State Auditor John Dougall called President Trump seditious and treasonous, and called for him to resign or be removed from office.
In a public post on Facebook on Wednesday night, Dougall, condemned the president.
SALT LAKE CITY A former state lawmaker who ran unsuccessfully against now Sen. Mitt Romney in the 2018 GOP U.S. Senate primary is returning to the Utah Legislature this time as a state senator.
Republican Mike Kennedy won the Utah County Republican Party s special election Tuesday night to fill the vacant seat left behind by Senate Majority Whip Dan Hemmert, R-Orem, who resigned to serve as Gov.-elect Spencer Cox s director of the Governor s Office of Economic Development.
Kennedy previously served in the Utah House when he was first elected in 2012 to fill a seat left vacant by John Dougall when he resigned to run for state auditor. He won re-election twice, but announced he would not seek re-election in 2018 in order to run for U.S. Senate. He lost to Romney in the GOP primary.