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House endorses administrative checkpoint standards after close division on entrapment language
Summary
After prolonged debate over magistrate oversight and entrapment concerns, the House passed amended HB122 (administrative traffic checkpoint rules) by a wide margin; an amendment to delete language addressing alleged entrapment was narrowly defeated before the final bill passed 73–0.
The Utah House took up House Bill 122 on administrative traffic checkpoints and policing procedures, debating language intended to codify a recent Supreme Court opinion and to set limits on law-enforcement checkpoint practice.
Representative Ehr, explaining the bill, said the measure sought to put into code a Supreme Court ruling (noted on the floor) so citizens and officers had clear standards for administrative checkpoints. He described three statutory…
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