When John Dougall ran for Utah auditor, he didn’t set out to “become a bathroom monitor” — and he didn’t ask the Utah Legislature to make him responsible for enforcing a transgender bathroom ban signed into law in January, he said in a statement Tuesday.
Utah auditor blasts ‘invasive and overly aggressive Legislature’ for making him trans ‘bathroom monitor’
When John Dougall ran for Utah auditor, he didn’t set out to “become a bathroom monitor” — and he didn’t ask the Utah Legislature to make him responsible for enforcing a The law goes on to require the state auditor’s office to “establish a process to receive and investigate alleged violations of this chapter by a government entity” — not individuals, Dougall emphasized in the statement — and then notify that entity. If the violation isn’t resolved, the auditor must refer the issue to the Utah attorney general’s office, which can then impose fines up to $10,000 “per violation per day.
Dougall wrote in his statement that the form was created to “comply with a statutory mandate — a role we did not request.”
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