More reps with A's! Make sure to thank them for their work. You can look at a more detailed breakdown of how they voted on the year's most significant bills here: buff.ly/T6SOwov

We have so many reps who are contributing to vibrant, safe, & connected communities across Utah, the protection & expansion of civil rights for all Utahns, measures promoting transparency, accountability, & fiscal responsibility, & environmental and long-range planning policies.

The top-scorers of the Utah House of Representatives! Make sure to thank these House Reps for the hard work they put in to make our state a better place.

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AI, surveillance and the Constitution: Cedar City’s license plate cameras spark debate In a city where safety and privacy are both fiercely valued, the recent rollout of automated license plate reader cameras by Cedar City Police has sparked a debate as old

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utah Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities with Open Source Research

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especially in cases across the US where ICE has accessed a municipality's Flock cameras to enforce the Trump administration's aggressive and violent immigration agenda.

Police Departments claim that these cameras help with crime prevention, but this sort of widespread surveillance is an extreme violation of privacy and, consequently, risks public safety-

Flock’s Aggressive Expansions Go Far Beyond Simple Driver Surveillance | ACLU Build it (an authoritarian tracking infrastructure) and they (expanded uses) will come

Flock Safety— an Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) company that is anything but safe— is widely used in the state of Utah, and the amount the state spends on Flock contracts has been steadily increasing each year.

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Many of these races are decided in the primaries (which are on June 23rd). Make sure you’re registered to vote, and make sure your registration is updated, because the registration deadline for the primaries is June 12th.

15 out of the 29 Senate districts in Utah are up for reelection this year- this includes Senate Districts 6, 7, 18, 21, and 23 (districts currently represented by Jerry Stevenson, Stuart Adams, Daniel Mckay, Brady Brammer, and Keith Grover).

The lowest-scoring Senators from our Progress Report- legislators who consistently voted against what we believe to be the state’s best interest.

But luckily, it’s a midterm year! If you don’t like the representation that you have in the state legislature, you can change it.

Contact her office today to thank her for her continued opposition and encourage her to keep pushing back—on water use, on building code enforcement, on environmental review, and on full public transparency every step of the way.

She has pushed for water restrictions, demanded meetings with ICE officials, and vowed to use every tool at the city's disposal to fight back. This week, she went public with what ICE told her and it is worse than many expected.

She needs to know Utahns are behind her.

SLC's Mayor Erin Mendenhall has been one of the loudest and most consistent voices opposing the federal government's plan to turn a west side warehouse into a detention center holding up to 10,000 people.

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Weber County's willingness to put naloxone in a vending machine at the sheriff's office is the kind of pragmatic, compassionate thinking that saves lives. More of this, please.

Harm reduction is not surrender; it is strategy. Meeting people where they are, removing barriers to care, and keeping people alive long enough to access recovery services is how communities actually reduce overdose deaths.

The coalition behind the project expects it to reduce overdose deaths, increase collaboration between public health and safety organizations, and lower long-term costs by decreasing emergency room visits, arrests, and shelter use. Additional sites are planned as the program expands.

New ‘harm reduction’ vending machines project launches in Weber County • Utah News Dispatch Groups aiming to protect people from drug abuse and STIs are installing “harm reduction” vending machines across Weber County.

Weber County recently launched harm reduction vending machines, offering free naloxone kits, fentanyl test strips, hygiene items, safe sex supplies, and treatment and recovery resources.

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Now it does, because of settlements paid by the very companies that flooded Utah communities with opioids in the first place. This investment is overdue and it will save lives. Treatment works; punishment alone does not.

Facing deadly gaps in addiction treatment, Salt Lake County invests $29.7M in fixes Salt Lake County approved a $29.7M plan to expand jail-based addiction care, as well as re-entry services to prevent overdoses and close gaps that can leave people recently released at high risk of…

Utah recorded 606 overdose deaths in 2023—the highest number on record. Colin Conner's death was not an anomaly; it was a systemic failure, repeated over and over for years because the county said it didn't have the money.

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The NAACP and the League of Women Voters are right to fight this. Utahns' voter data belongs to Utahns.

The DOJ's claim that this is about election integrity is hard to take seriously when it is being made by an administration that has systematically weaponized federal agencies against political opponents. Lt. Governor Henderson, to her credit, has resisted.

DOJ asks judge to compel Lt. Gov. Henderson to hand over Utahns' voter info The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a federal judge to force Lt. Governor Deidre Henderson to hand over Utah voters' personal information.

The same administration that wants to detain up to 10,000 people in Salt Lake City also wants a federal judge to hand it the personal records of every eligible voter in Utah. That is not a coincidence—it is a pattern.

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This is not immigration enforcement. It is mass detention.

Federal law may block Salt Lake City from enforcing its own building codes on this property, but that doesn't mean Utahns have to stay quiet. The scale of what is being planned here is staggering: 10,000 human beings held in a converted industrial building.

The Trump administration is turning a warehouse into one of the largest detention centers in the United States with zero coordination with the city, zero transparency on environmental impacts, and zero concern for the community bearing the burden.

Mayor says ICE is planning ‘mega center’ with capacity for 10,000 at Salt Lake City warehouse • Utah News Dispatch Mayor Erin Mendenhall was told ICE is planning to put one of its “mega” detention centers in Salt Lake City, with capacity for 10,000 people.

Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall confirmed Monday that ICE officials told her during a 30-minute virtual meeting last week that the agency's newly purchased west side warehouse will become a "mega center" with capacity for 7,500 to 10,000 detainees.

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The bill's drafters were careful enough to stay technically within constitutional guardrails, but the intent isn't subtle. Christian nationalism has been gaining ground in GOP-led states, and this law is a textbook example of using state power to embed one religious tradition into civic life.