BYU Police Decertified by State of Utah

[_AmyJo]

Do they think they're above the law, or they are the law?!

"The BYU Police Department has been decertified by the state of Utah.

It will remain active as a police department, however, until Sept. 1 while BYU appeals the decision.

The Utah Department of Public Safety officially notified the school of the decertification in a letter dated Feb. 20 to Brigham Young University President Kevin Worthen, stating that it has failed to comply with open records rules that all other law enforcement agencies are subject to.

According to the letter, BYU police "failed to comply with the certification criteria … spefically, between 2016 and April 2018, BYUPD failed to conduct an internal investigation into specific allegations of misconduct by a BYUPD officer and failed to report any findings found to be true to Peace Officer Standards and Training" as required by law.

The department also "failed to comply with a subpoena issued by POST" on June 28 into allegations of misconduct by a BYUPD officer," the letter states.

Utah Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Marissa Cote said the department failed to comply with public records requests, even when the state was the one requesting records."

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900 ... -utah.html

[_moksha]

I imagine the Church formerly known as "Mormon" will put a full-court press on its supermajority of Utah State Legislators and the Governor's Office to change this decision.

[_Maksutov]

University of Utah Police next.