Utah House speaker says he’ll support 3 police reform bills

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah’s Republican House Speaker Brad Wilson says he will support three police reform bills that have been proposed in the state legislature. Wilson said Wednesday he would back laws that would dedicate more training time to de-escalation tactics and methods on how to interact with those experiencing a mental health crisis, impose criminal penalties for law enforcement employees that misuse evidence, particularly by sharing intimate images, and require law enforcement agencies to submit data on use-of-force incidents to a database. The three bills represent a fraction of the dozens of police reform bills that have been filed by state lawmakers since the police killing of George Floyd last May.