ATTORNEY GENERAL SEAN D. REYES
December 30, 2013
FIRST MINORITY HISPANIC AND POLYNESIAN ELECTED INTO STATEWIDE OFFICE IN UTAH POLITICAL HISTORY,
First-ever National Outstanding Young Lawyer Award from the American Bar Association recipient.
Education
Summa Cum Laude from BYU in 1994
Law degree from Cal-Berkeley in 1997
Sean D. Reyes became Utah’s 21st Attorney General In December 30, 2013, at the age of 42, He is the first minority to hols this statewide position in the history of Utah.He was appointed by Governor Gary Herbert following the resignation of John Swallow due to illegal activities.
In this position General Reyes was immediately faced with the challenge of restoring public trust in the Utah Attorney General’s Office (“AGO”), where accusations of wrongdoing and abuse of power beset his two predecessors.
ONE OF HIS AMAZING QUOTE IS :
“I love this job because you get to serve everyday and make a real difference protecting people and giving a voice to those who feel like they don’t have one. It’s gratifying putting bad guys away. I’m the son of an immigrant who came here to flee tyranny. I’m thrilled to serve here every day.”
SECRET STING IN COLUMBIA CHILD SEX SLAVERY RESCUE /
Attorney General Sean Reyes participate in a rescue mission with Tim Ballard, the founder of OURrescue.org( Operation Underground Railroad ) to Colombia that saved over 100 young girls from child sex slavery. It was both excruciatingly painful and inspiring. Liberating these young girls from the hands of cartel members will be forever imprinted in my mind—and will be a guiding force that helps me to protect more families and Utahans from this violent crime in the future.
Today, there are over 2 million children worldwide enslaved in this heinous industry, many of whom who reside in the United States.
Attorney General Reyes in 2015 urged Congress to get stricter on human trafficking worldwide, particularly by passing an international Megan’s Law to protect children from predators.
Human trafficking, he said, is one of the most insidious but least understood and recognized crimes.
Through his determination he has help many children with the Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) is a task-force started by the United States Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in 1998. Its primary goals are to provide state and local law enforcement agencies the tools to prevent Internet crimes against children by encouraging multi-jurisdictional cooperation, as well as educating law enforcement agents, parents, and teachers. The aims of ICAC task forces are to catch distributors of child pornography on the Internet, whether delivered on-line or solicited on-line and distributed through other channels and to catch sexual predators who solicit victims on the Internet through chat rooms, forums and other methods. Currently all fifty states participate in ICAC.
Authorities arrested 1,368 suspects, including 71 from Utah. The suspects were charged with various offenses including possession and manufacturing of child pornography and soliciting children online for sex.
TWO OF HIS QUOTES:
“As a father of six children, I want to change that,” Reyes told the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa and Global Human Rights in Washington, D.C.
“Anybody who would say that human trafficking and child exploitation doesn’t exist in our community is perpetuating a very irresponsible myth amongst the community,”
Election 2016
Attorney General Reyes is running again for the seat. He has been endorse by the Utah Fraternal Order of Police, an organization representing over 2,700 police officers statewide, has endorsed him in the 2016 general election. Get out an vote him back in.
Well Attorney Generneral Sean Reyes has won another 4 years in office yes.