Police chief told about officer's complaint 6 months ago, recently said he was unaware

A continuing 2News Investigation found the Springville Police Department went to extraordinary lengths to keep Officer Kati Powell’s body camera video of a DUI investigation hidden from public scrutiny. We fought their denials and challenged the heavy-handed redactions when we finally received the video. All the while, the police chief claimed he first learned of this incident after we requested the body camera video , but a recording tells a different story.

2News called Mendell and she told us a legal assistant in the Springville City Prosecutor’s Office told her she could not release the body camera footage because the case is still open. We emailed City Prosecutor Carl Gustaveson who had charged Monfredi with DUI on July 31, 2023, and asked how SPD arrived at what we perceived to be a wrongful denial under the GRAMA law.

“You don’t have a story if they just give you all this in the first place and say here you go, go ahead, and review it we’ve looked at it and taken care of the issue. Now you have quite a story to tell, as does this particular officer who has been terminated,” says Burbank. Continuing to justify the redaction over Monfredi, they cited that it was a clearly unwarranted invasion of his personal privacy.

At 3:36 p.m. Chief Haight sent an email saying that they were successful in redacting the video per our request and we received a link to download it shortly after. We thanked him for helping us so that we could add the newly un-redacted video in time for our report.When asked why he looked at Powell’s body camera video 57 minutes after we requested it, he responded by writing,

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