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Utah Prosecution Council describes training reach, e-prosecutor system and domestic-violence resourcing need
Summary
Bob Church, Director of the Utah Prosecution Council, told the subcommittee UPC provided most prosecutors’ CLE, operates resource prosecutors, and depends on a case-management system (e-prosecutor) maintained via CCJJ grant support; he recommended continued resources for domestic-violence training and a dedicated DV prosecutor position.
Bob Church, director of the Utah Prosecution Council, outlined UPC’s statutory training mandate for prosecutors and law enforcement and said the council’s small staff delivers statewide continuing legal education and technical assistance. “We are the state agency that is mandated to train Utah's prosecutors,” Church said, adding UPC provides CLE, ethics and trauma-informed training and hosts conferences and regional events.
Church reported that UPC-trained attendance totaled 1,351 individuals last year across nine conferences and numerous regional events. He said 29% of those surveyed receive 100% of their CLE from UPC and 69% receive between 50% and 99%, indicating UPC supplies a major share of prosecutor training statewide.
On technology and reporting, Church described the e-prosecutor case-management system used by nearly 40 county and city offices (though not the largest counties that maintain their own systems) and roughly 300 individual users. He thanked Tom Ross and CCJJ staff for finding alternative grant funding after a regular grant offset (~$480,000) was not provided as expected.
Church also raised a programmatic need: a separate domestic-violence resource prosecutor. He said domestic-violence entries in UPC's e-prosecutor are up by about 72 cases in the system he tracks and that approximately 24% of those cases in the UPC dataset were dismissed with notes indicating lack of victim participation. In response to a committee request, Church offered to provide a specific figure for the number of cases prosecuted without the victim present.
