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Seeking justice: What the Utah County Attorney's Office is doing to prosecute sexual crimes
Editor’s note: This is the second part in a series examining sexual assaults in Utah County. The first story highlighted what the Provo Police Department is doing to investigate sexual crimes. When Jeffrey Gray ran for Utah County Attorney in 2022, he said a priority of his was to reinstate the special victims unit, or SVU, to prosecute sexual crimes. In the two-and-a-half years since he took office, Gray has lobbied for an expanded budget to hire more SVU attorneys and seeks to prosecute these crimes at a higher rate. At the beginning of this year, the county attorney’s SVU ...
