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Senate rejects bid to ban routine traffic enforcement by unmarked vehicles
Summary
After hours of debate on public-safety and policing trade-offs, the Utah Senate voted down the third-substitute to SB 262, a measure that would have limited routine traffic enforcement by unmarked vehicles to certain narrow operations.
The Utah Senate on an evening floor session failed to pass third substitute Senate Bill 262, a proposal backed by its sponsor to end routine traffic enforcement with unmarked vehicles and limit those vehicles’ use to specific public-safety operations.
Senator McKay, sponsor of the measure, told colleagues the goal was “to end a practice of using unmarked vehicles for traffic enforcement” and to refocus patrols on visible policing for safety…
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