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Utah committee backs resolution seeking federal help on drones and contraband phones in prisons
Summary
The House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee voted unanimously to give HJR 4 a favorable recommendation after hearing Utah Department of Corrections testimony about drones dropping phones and drugs into facilities and requests to Congress for phone-jamming authority and Second Chance Act funding.
Representative Melissa G. Ballard urged the House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee to support a resolution asking Congress to protect prisons from unmanned aircraft and to back federal reauthorization of the Second Chance Reauthorization Act, and the committee voted unanimously to give that resolution a favorable recommendation.
Ballard, sponsor of HJR 4, said the measure seeks two federal responses and a state-level tool: reauthorization of the Second Chance Act funding, authority to address contraband cell phones inside state correctional facilities, and limits on drones flying over prisons. "I do think it's valuable to still keep it…
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