BYU creates new security force, seeming to sidestep a law that makes its police obey open records rules

Brigham Young University announced Thursday that it has created a security department that will “function separately” from its police — forming a new division that the university seems to suggest will be exempt from state open records laws.The surprising move comes after years of legal battles over whether officers at the private religious school had improperly shared police evidence, including while investigating student reports of rape. In response to those accounts, legislat