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2018 Utah Code
Title 17 - Counties
Chapter 22 - Sheriff
Section 32 - County jail reporting requirements.
Universal Citation: UT Code § 17-22-32 (2018)
Effective 5/8/2018
17-22-32. County jail reporting requirements.
Enacted by Chapter 437, 2018 General Session
17-22-32. County jail reporting requirements.
- (1) As used in this section:
- (a)
- (i) "In-custody death" means an inmate death that occurs while the inmate is in the custody of a county jail.
- (ii) "In-custody death" includes an inmate death that occurs while the inmate is:
- (A) being transported for medical care; or
- (B) receiving medical care outside of a county jail.
- (b) "Inmate" means an individual who is processed or booked into custody or housed in a county jail in the state.
- (c) "Opiate" means the same as that term is defined in Section 58-37-2.
- (a)
- (2) So that the state may oversee the inmate health care system, a county jail shall submit a report to the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, created in Section 63M-7-201, before August 1 of each year that includes:
- (a) the number of in-custody deaths that occurred during the preceding calendar year;
- (b) the known, or discoverable on reasonable inquiry, causes and contributing factors of each of the in-custody deaths described in Subsection (2)(a);
- (c) the county jail's policy for notifying an inmate's next of kin after the inmate's in-custody death;
- (d) the county jail policies, procedures, and protocols:
- (i) for treatment of an inmate experiencing withdrawal from alcohol or substance use, including use of opiates; and
- (ii) relating to the county jail's provision, or lack of provision, of medications used to treat, mitigate, or address an inmate's symptoms of withdrawal, including methadone and all forms of buprenorphine and naltrexone; and
- (e) any report the county jail provides or is required to provide under federal law or regulation relating to inmate deaths.
- (3) The Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice shall:
- (a) compile the information from the reports described in Subsection (2);
- (b) omit or redact any identifying information of an inmate in the compilation to the extent omission or redaction is necessary to comply with state and federal law ; and
- (c) submit the compilation to the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee and the Utah Substance Use and Mental Health Advisory Council before November 1 of each year.
Enacted by Chapter 437, 2018 General Session
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