This week, legislators in Utah passed a bill that will require the state to establish a new “Utah White Collar Crime Offender Registry.” The New York Times reports that the Registry, which is similar in concept to the sex offender registries now in every state in the U.S., will be “the nation’s first white-collar offender registry, appending a scarlet letter of sorts on the state’s financial felons.” A spokesman for Utah Governor Gary Herbert stated this week that Herbert intends to sign the bill into law to protect “the consumer and the public from fraud and predatory practices.”
