Inmate challenges state law he says was meant as retaliation against whistleblowers

William Sherratt was known as a "frequent filer" when it came to GRAMA requests. He is challenging a law that blocks inmates from filing some records requests.The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with The Salt Lake Tribune.

Williams’ whistleblower lawsuit, however, kept moving along, triggering a federal investigation into the fraud allegations and leading the state of Utah to settle with the federal government for $1.5 million in 2022. Williams could collect a reward based on a percentage of the money recovered by the federal government.

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Curtis Bramble, R-Provo, would “not substantially impact 95% of our inmates — it will only try to stop these really abusive requests,” Montague said. “The Office of the Attorney General moved existing employees into grant-funded positions but did not immediately fill the vacated positions with new hires; or it used grant funds to pay existing employee salaries while misrepresenting that the employees’ positions would be, or were, eliminated by budget cuts,” the complaint states.

“This was brought forward by the attorney general’s office,” Bramble told the committee. “It was either we do this bill or we request additional [full-time employees] just to deal with GRAMA.” He began challenging Corrections again after a California court decision found that the state could not force inmates to admit guilt to be accepted into sex offender programs necessary for their qualification for parole.

Now out of prison, he is volunteering with multiple prison reform groups and filing GRAMAs like a free man.

frescacowboy Can they have someone else make the GRAMA request?

And as much as this does not surprise me. I am surprised how often Utah is caught being crooked.Miss use of funds!! You mean stealing it?!?!

The irony, the prisoner finds corruption in the AGO. Got to stop that, right?

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