Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill speaks during a criminal justice and mental health symposium on Sep. 24, 2025. (Alixel Cabrera/Utah News Dispatch)
Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill still remembers one of the most difficult calls of his time as a public prosecutor. It was an elderly woman with a severely mentally ill adult child.
Without access to many resources and feeling increasingly exhausted as she and her husband got older, she asked an unimaginable question — what felonies could her son commit to get help from the county’s mental health court?…