Utah Code § 75E-2-203: Recidivism metrics -- Reporting.

(1) When reporting data on statewide recidivism, the department, the Department of Corrections, and the Board of Pardons and Parole shall include data reflecting the recidivism standard metric and any available alternative recidivism metric.

(2) A report on statewide criminal recidivism may also include other information reflecting available recidivism, intervention, or desistance data.

(3) A criminal justice institution, agency, or entity required to report adult recidivism data to the department:

(a) shall include:

(i) a clear description of the eligible individuals, including:

(A) the criminal population being evaluated for recidivism; and

(B) the interventions that are being evaluated;

(ii) a clear description of the beginning and end of the evaluation period; and

(iii) a clear description of the events that are considered as a recidivism-triggering event; and

(b) may include supplementary data including:

(i) the length of time that elapsed before a recidivism-triggering event described in Subsection (3)(a)(iii) occurred;

(ii) the severity of a recidivism-triggering event described in Subsection (3)(a)(iii);

(iii) measures of personal well-being, education, employment, housing, health, family or social support, civic or community engagement, or legal involvement; or

(iv) other desistance metrics that may capture an individual's behavior following the individual's release from an intervention.

(4) Unless otherwise specified in statute:

(a) the evaluation period described in Subsection (3)(a)(ii) is three years; and

(b) a recidivism-triggering event under Subsection (3)(a)(iii) shall include:

(i) an arrest;

(ii) an admission to prison;

(iii) a criminal charge; or

(iv) a criminal conviction.