The Utah Department of Corrections Sex Offender Task Force is committed to ensuring that sex offender supervision and treatment is the best it can possibly be. As part of that commitment, the task force sponsors quarterly trainings. These quarterly trainings address issues which are relevant to agents and therapists who work with sex offenders. They cover technical treatment and supervision topics. All trainings are held at Adult Probation and Parole's Region III Office, #36 West Fremont Avenue (1100 South) in Salt Lake City and are provided free of charge. If you have questions or are interested in attending and are not on our mailing list, please call Barbara Hibler at 545-5693, Rolina McQuiston at 633-9414 or Michael Robinson at 576-7249 or e-mail the task force at sotaskforce@utah.gov

Sex Offender Task Force Meeting

Due to the Governor's initiative to allow for 4 day work weeks, the Utah Department of Corrections Administration Building will be closed on Friday, effective August 4th.  As a result, the Sex Offender Task Force Meeting has now been changed to the following:  2nd Thursday of every month at 0900 hrs at Administration, 1st floor-front conference room.  The next meeting is scheduled for August 14th.

Sex Offender Quarterly Training

Due to the Governor's initiative to allow for 4 day work weeks, the Salt Lake AP&P Office will now be closed on Friday, effective August 4th.  As a result, the next Sex Offender Quarterly Training has now been changed to September 11th from 0900-1300 hrs. 

The next training session will be held on September 11th, 2008 at Region III between 0900-1300 hours.

Dr. Byrne of BIT/Monarch will present the information on:

• How the PPG can be used for both risk assessment issues
• Examing further motives in sexual offending
• Intimacy deficits and psychological trauma
• PPG as an outcome measure
• Examination of avoiding the "pitfalls" of PPG