A spotlight has been shone on cases of officers facing discipline for accessing the state’s police database without authorization, including an incident in Duchesne County. A KSL report explains that five officers have already faced discipline this year which is more cases than all of 2020. The act of illegally accessing personal information by using the police database can result in a class B misdemeanor criminal charge. Two of the officers accessed the database to do background checks on women that they wanted to date, another was checking on a case that involved a family member, and another was using it to see if a dispatcher was someone his son knew. The 5th incident was a Duchesne County Sheriff’s deputy who was checking his personal vehicle’s registration. The KSL report states that the Duchesne County deputy was originally fired from his department but was later rehired and the council issued him a letter of caution.
