Utah Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson speaks to reporters at a news conference announcing an online dashboard for domestic violence lethality assessment data at Veterans Memorial Park in West Jordan on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. A painting of her cousin, Amanda Mayne, who was murdered by her ex-husband, is displayed behind her. (McKenzie Romero/Utah News Dispatch)
Under a cloud of grief following the deaths of two police officers who were shot and killed responding to a domestic violence call, Utah public safety leaders, lawmakers and service providers announced the rollout of a public dashboard sharing data collected by law enforcement answering reports of intimate partner violence statewide.
The online dashboard displays the number of times officers in the state have used the “lethality assessment protocol” — a series of questions meant to identify the potential for deadly violence in a domestic violence situation, prompting an immediate referral for victim services — and what the answers yielded…