Salt Lake City, UT – Unconfirmed reports coming out of Salt Lake City, Utah indicate that the Judiciary has delayed implementation of the Arnold Foundation’s “risk assessment tool” amid serious criticisms from Utah legislators.
On September 26, 2017, the Utah State Legislature had sent a formal letter to Chief Justice Matthew Durrant of the Utah Supreme Court and Richard Schwermer, Court Administrator of the AOC, to request that the judiciary “immediately stop in the implementation of the statewide risk assessment tool and enhancements to the current risk assessment activities” citing concerns over proposed rule changes to rule 7 of the Utah Rules of Criminal Procedure.
The formal letter was the result of concerns over public safety and the use of the risk assessment.
Statement from Jeff Clayton, Executive Director, American Bail Coalition:
“For the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House to tell the Chief Justice to stop implementation of the Arnold foundation risk assessment tool tells me that they seriously reviewed the recent and significant evidence of the flaws with the tool noted by other public officials throughout the United States, and concluded that it was time to stop the implementation before it unleashed a wave of crime in Salt Lake City that would turn Operation Rio Grande into Operation Futility.”
Stay tuned for more updates…
20170927 Judiciary Letter on Risk Assessment
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