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Committee advances HB 370 requiring monitoring for registry entries without addresses
Summary
Representative Lisonbee presented HB 370 to require electronic location monitoring for registrants on Utah’s offender registry who do not provide a residential address; law‑enforcement and prosecutor groups supported the measure while advocacy groups raised housing, retroactivity and cost concerns; the committee adopted a first substitute and favorably recommended it.
Representative Lisonbee introduced HB 370, which would require the Department of Public Safety to establish a location‑monitoring program (implemented using an ankle monitor) for registry participants who do not provide a residential address. The sponsor said about 291 registrants lacked an address on the public registry and estimated a quarter to a third of them may have an address but avoid reporting it. The bill directs law‑enforcement, corrections and courts to coordinate with DPS and…
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