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Utah's multi-agency joint strike force — a partnership between the Office of the Attorney General and the Department of Public Safety that targets crimes harming the state's economy, such as organized retail crime and antitrust violations — would be expanded under this bill to explicitly include metal theft, defined as stealing items for their scrap or resale value. The bill would also shift where the strike force's annual data on catalytic converter thefts and arrests gets reported: rather than including that information in its existing yearly report to the Legislature's Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee, the strike force would instead report those numbers directly to the State Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, which would add the data to Utah's public safety information portal accessible to criminal justice agencies statewide.