Author: Mariah Wheeler

OGDEN, Utah — The Davis County Sheriff’s Office is having success with a new program that allows some inmates to use ankle monitors instead of being incarcerated. The program, first introduced in October, is designed for low-level and non-violent offenders who would spend their days in work release or school and their nights in jail. Funding from the federal CARES act allowed the Sheriff’s Office to purchase ankle monitors and laptop computers to track inmates. The Sheriff’s Office began its ankle monitor program with seven inmates in October. Since then, a total of 47 people have been admitted to the…

OGDEN, Utah — Two Utah cities will start the new year with new leadership in their police departments. Both Ogden and Taylorsville introduced new police chiefs on Tuesday. In Ogden, city officials chose a native son in Eric Young to replace retiring Chief Randy Watt. “I am honored and humbled to be selected by Mayor Mike Caldwell to serve as the next police chief for the city,” Young said at a press conference Tuesday. “I spent my entire life interwoven in the fabric of Ogden. “As a young child, entertainment was a movie at the Egyptian or Orpheum theaters, or…