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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH Sunday March 31, 1996 OPEN AGENDA: Utah Living Not knowing. let me move on to your final question: your excuse?” To wit 1. I'm in the witness protection ery place else seems so _ELOUISE BELL predictable by comparison 6. There's something cozyabout program and have no choice. 2. I'm ona mission. My church demands a 50-year tour of duty being on a first-name basis with every liberal (feminist, so-called intellectual) in thestate. and requires missionaries to wear eat pizza, drink beer and avoid gardening and excessive exercise lest we loose sight of our goal: 8. Someone has to make sure Let's face it, Tom,: our beloved The reality of this fact hit me when, four or five times within our children arenot carried off by eagles. 9. All of the human-madenuttiness pales into insignificance beside the natural splendors of this breath-takingstate. 10. For the same reason a parent sticks by her kids, through green hair, nose-rings, heavy metal and militant vegetarianism. credulously, Utah?” “Whydo you stayin It has been an oddball year. even for us. The Waldholtz saga continues to bloominto a hybrid of soap operaand sitcom. (‘Joe in the Slammer: Will He Ever See His Baby Again?) Comics can no longer rely on the state Legisla- ture for ma ality is so much manufacture napping 3. I've been sent here from another planet to observe this hu- man ant farm. 4. To wander the desert like Moses until the legalization of adulthoodis realized. 5, To remind those whoclaim a legacyof kindred footprints pulling handcartsin days past that the So what's your excuse, Tom? the past few weeks, people else- where have asked me, ratherin- sun doesn’t sink into the Great Salt Lake, but rather continuesto Elouise Bell is professor emeri- shine on other parts of this globe tus et Brigham Young Universi- andits people equally ty. 6. Howabout “'! like it here?” 7. It would belike leaving in the middleof a good movie. I wantto TOM BARBERI see howit ends, 8. Its closer to Cleveland than San Jose 9. I'mwaiting for the natives to ause the re- admit that they have no more birthright to be here than I do because we all came from somewhereelse. 10. I can’t leave until I find out or than any (Look for this headline ou Legislature Bans ALL Same-Sex Organiza- tions: Footbal! Teams, Relief So- RESPONSE ciety, La Leche League Distraught.”) The disappearance of the state Democratic Party has outsiders wondering whether sinkholes, a Bonneville Triangle or vigilante groups are the cul- prits Depending on who is asking and how depressing the news has been on a particular morning, I have a variety of responses to the auestion of why I remain in Utah. 1. Only rats desert sinking ships I don't knowif I can be of any help, Elouise. First of all, I ask that question of myself every morning while I shave. Trying to so can I 4. It feels so goed to get away aceRaUt eRLolo Thirty-nine states andthe District of Columbia allow some access to juvenile court records and hearings. Some provideas little as the youth's name and age while others allow unlimited review. Utah allows only limited access. BH Restricted @ Continued from C-1 TT ated. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have opened their All Arkansas a All All California All Violent Crimes All Violent Crimes court records ranging from re- Colorado U4") viotentcrimes Al All a All Felony All have limited access to juvenile leasing the offender's name to complete disclosure of criminal records. Remaining states’ juvenile records are closed On March 18, a Pennsylvania law went into effect that opens mosthearingsfor teens 14 or older and even 12-year-olds charged . Al All Felony All All Georgia = a All Tee wasa campaign device Deneey gubernato- Illinois Ae Violent Crimes All All toget elected after airing televi- Indiana All Beepegee All| Murder or Felony sion commercials about a 15-yearold rapist who was given a lenient lowa All All with heinous crimes. Knownas“Act13,” rial candidate Thomas Ridge used sentence, said Melissa Sickmund, senior research assistant for the center. NewMexico legislators opened juvenile records in the mid-1980s ers therestill do not know such a sition. In fact, many news reportpolicyexists, officials said. “It makesit a lot easier, andthe the All Violent Crimes Maryland a Maine Michigan except for some New Yorkers Minnesota best Same for California, Nebraska, Louisiana, et al Something else missing from your opening lines of today’s col- This is a great place tolive because despite the attitudes of umn is the tone with which the someinhabitants,it’s in America! Ciao, Were those asking hoping to see a moving truck in front of your house? Or were they desirous of seeing a moving truckin front of “It keeps me in the courtroom and addresses issues that are impor- TomBarberi is a talk show host on KALL-AM. out for the day. “My mother heard me. She was This year, leaders in selected areas of Utah were askedto solicit girl's impressions of Hinckley’s October Gen- “Life is becoming so exceeding- ly competitive,” he said. “Experts say that the average man or woman, during his or her working career, can expect to have five different jobs. The world is changing, andit is so very important that we equip ourselves to move with that change. But there eral Conference address. Hundreds of entries were received and three younggirls were is a bright side to all of this. No ence in her life. “Usually my other generation in all of history has offered women so many op- mother and I argue about things.” But if she studied scripture every chosen to speak Saturday. Twelve-year-old Kirsten Boyer said Hinckley's plea to read and study scriptures made a differ- portunities night, she said, she found the patience to listen and understand Steve Griff The Salt Lake Tribune her mother’s point of view. Kirsten Boyer, 12, speaks at meeting of LDS young women. One of the three, 17-year-old Anne Prescott, wrote of an experience with Hinckley. Her father Latter-day Saint you cannot do avoided like poison. He said tampering with them could “place a had recently died and Hinckley stopped in at a church meeting As for swearing, he offered she was attending. “I knew if I did my bestat this hard time in my life, things would work out. What terrible handicap” on youths and also on their children somefirsthand advice Hesaid when he wasin first or second grade, he came in from school one day and threw his books on the table and “took the President Hinckley said did not take away mypain, but it helped meunderstandthat I neededto be happyand help my mom and family be happy.”’ she said 2 Honest Statements That May Change Your idea of Retirement All All = oo ee Felony All Violent Crimes = All Felony All Felony Montana All Felony All All Nevada All All a attorney, Lynn Donaldson. “They tend to get New Hampshire} Al Violent Crimes @ New Jersey All Felony All All “If they're really trying to do New Mexico All All All All All All ai Repeat Offender Ber Felony and have to move to another schoolor another home,” hesaid. what's in the best interest of the kid, publicity is way down the list.” caught in the frenzy to crack down on juvenile crime and lose sight of rehabilitating young of- fenders. “Both sides are inflexible, and Utah juvenile court judges are getting fed up, however, over neg- General Conference. and their religion, get an educa- tion andlisten to their mothers. All Missouri soap and proceeded to wash out mymouth with that terrible soap. The taste wasterrible. The repriThe meeting is held the week All me eaene’ an [Meee Mississippi you get crazy kinds of legisla- before the church's semiannual Violent Crimes should be open or not.” But publicizing children charged with crimes also comes with detrimental effects, particularly if they are later found inno- shocked,” he said. “She got a clean washcloth and a clean bar of mand was worse.” the crowdto be true to themselves All All tant, not whether the records cent, said Salt Lake City defense their own homes? “(8lor Massachusetts Oider| Repeat Offender New MexicoDistrict Court Juve- NewYork is a wonderful place messages to heart. They didn't have to wait long. When church President Gordon B. Hinckley took the pulpit Saturday, he told your respect oo yourself will increase,” he sai Tllegal rigs he said, should be Louisiana myself to ribbons is difficult at young women were urgedto listen to church leaders and take their esteem. Betrue to yourselves and All public has the right to know,” pressing myrelief that school was anykind will only lower your self- All nile Judge Mike Martinez. nameof the Lord in vain in ex- menat your age suffer from lack of self-esteem. Contrary to what you maythink, an immoral act of All Gone Kansas any other part of the country. ByHilary Groutage “Be honest in your lives. As a Counts just some of the people wholive THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE kind,” he said, “Many young wo- Delaware Florida with little fanfare and scant oppo- here are screwed up — not unlike Crime All answer it at 3:50 a.m. and not cut At the annual General Young Women Meeting of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, shoplifting or anything of the Age a Hurst said state officials get drugs, sex and swearing. Age Alaska MainStreet P.S, Elouise, take heart: There Hinckley Counsels Young Women Hinckley also offered pointed advice on shoplifting, illegal STATE court hearings to the public, regardless of the offender's age or type of crime, according to a survey by the center. Thirty states just what kind of people areattracted to the square dancers on is nothing wrong with Utah. It’s question has been posed to you. 2. It's my karma. I wasa savonarola in a previousexistence. 3. If Karen Shepherd can do it, Court Access: Will Girl, 13, Rewrite Law? faded Levi's, watch football and 7. You meanit's legal to leave? Utahis looking mighty squirrelly to the rest of the country these days, “So what's c3 tion,” he said. ative publicity about how juvenile courts handle cases. Theysayit’8 not the judges who give hardenedteens breaks, but ; system that is underfunded and overworked. “The juvenile more because court suffers . of thisEoniiniae veil of hourt confidentiality,” trator McNamarasaid. “But they [iudges] were eager to lift that veil andstill stand firm about protecting those kids who are victims.” In May, Utah's 21 juvenile- court judges will meet in Cedar City to discuss about when the public mayattend hearings and viewrecords. The group also will help draft legislation for next year's Legislature that might North Carolina North Dakota All Oklahoma All Repeat Offender or Felony Oregon All Adult Crime Pennsylvania bee Violent Crimes Rhode Island All All South Dakota All All eee Violent Crimes ‘a Tennessee Texas 16 or Older UTAH a Se @ a a @ All All Felony 16 or Older Felony Vermont All Ke Felony j Virginia All Felony All All Washington All All All All Wisconsin All All All All Wyoming All Felony : : % Source: National Center for Juvenile Justice Rhonda Hailes Maylett TheSalt LakeTribune easerestrictions. “Wewant the communityto see what happens [in the courts],” McNamarasaid. “These are community pen Me TURN HOOP INTO HOPE PROUD OF GERRIE SHAW I am so proud to be the husband of the amazing Salt Lake County Republican Vice Chairwoman. She dedicated endless long hours, seven days a week, to enable the people to participate in the election process against amazing odds. 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