After a string of teenagers killing other teenagers in Ogden last year, lawyers, legislators and social service agencies want to expand a youth violence prevention program that’s been piloted in Salt Lake County.
Jim Retallick, director of the Weber County Public Defender Group, said this level of youth violence is the worst he’s ever seen.
“I’ve been doing public defense work for 35 years,” Retallick said. “And I’m tired of representing the grandchildren of the parents and grandparents that I’ve represented all those years. And I was not seeing a change.”…