ACLU of Utah, Disability Law Center file suit over Davis County Jail standards

SALT LAKE CITY — The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah and the Disability Law Center have filed a lawsuit against Davis County and the Utah State Records Committee in an effort to make jail standards for the Davis County Jail publicly available.

The origin of the ACLU and DLC lawsuit — filed May 21 in Farmington’s 2nd District Court — started in October 2017 when the organizations submitted a public-records, or GRAMA, request to obtain a copy of the Davis County Jail’s operating standards.

In December, the request was mostly denied by Davis County, and officials said the jail standards were the property of Gary DeLand, a former director of the Utah Department of Corrections who wrote, copyrighted and sold the jail standards to counties around Utah and other states.

The two organizations appealed the decision to the Utah State Records Committee, and in April the committee ruled in favor of keeping the jail standards secret.

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