HB124 would standardize ‘best practices’ for requesting and executing no-knock warrants. However, some question how much the bill would actually accomplish.
State Rep. Matthew Gwynn, R-Farr West, working at the Utah Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. Gwynn, who is also the chief of police in Roy, has sponsored a bill to apply "best practices" to no-knock warrants in Utah.last year, a bill that would place restrictions on controversial no-knock warrants has resurfaced and just passed one of its final hurdles to becoming law in Utah.
The bill also sets a preference that warrants be served between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. and requires that officers wear “readily identifiable markings,” such as a badge or vest, that identify them as law enforcement. The Utah Law Enforcement Legislative Committee had a hand in crafting the new bill, forming a working group that provided insight and feedback on the proposed legislation, said Nate Mutter, assistant chief of investigations for the Utah Attorney General’s Office.
In one of its more substantive provisions, HB124 would prohibit officers from requesting no-knock warrants for misdemeanor investigations. While saying he supported the bill, Connor Boyack, president of the libertarian-leaning Libertas Institute, expressed doubt as to how much the legislation would actually accomplish.
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