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: Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Okay, Buttars Wins

By Ed Brayton

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The battle for the nation's dumbest state legislator has been won. Utah state Sen. Chris Buttars has now officially crossed the line from looney religious righter to outright Orwellian nightmare. He has submitted a bill in Utah to make all reports of police misconduct secret and unavailable to the public.

A new bill proposed at the legislature would allow for police to withhold misconduct reports from the public. Supporters of the bill believe that police misconduct should be kept secret from the public so to not discredit police testimony...

Currently, misconduct reports are available in Utah with an official records request. Under the bill SB260, sponsored by Senator Chris Buttars, the video and investigation report from Massey's tazering might have been kept secret from the public and journalists.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 18, 2008 (boomark / email).

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