# Source: Utah Attorney General — Far More Than Just an App

**Type:** source
**Status:** Useful
**Confidence:** Medium
**Source Type:** official-page
**URL:** https://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/far-more-than-just-an-app/
**Publisher:** Utah Office of the Attorney General
**Retrieved:** 2026-08-12
**Raw:** raw/utah-ag-safeut-far-more-than-an-app/2026-08-11-0c82b50671e1.txt
**Updated:** 2026-08-11
**Relates:** cites [SafeUT](safeut.md) · https://greatutah.work/pages/safeut.md · https://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/far-more-than-just-an-app/

## Summary

Utah Attorney General's Office description of SafeUT's origins and partners. Useful for legislative/AG partnership claims and for how Utah officials describe interest from other states — with a stale-date warning on one sentence.

## Useful Claims

- SafeUT is described as a **free statewide service** providing **real-time crisis intervention** to Utah students, parents, and educators.
- Students can message **licensed clinicians**, call a crisis counselor, or submit confidential tips; the app is staffed **24 hours a day, 365 days a year** at the **University Neuropsychiatric Institute (UNI)** — statutory/pre-rename language on this page.
- The program **was developed with funding from the Utah State Legislature** in collaboration with the **Utah Attorney General's Office**, **UNI / U of U Health**, the **Utah State Board of Education**, and the **Utah Anti-Bullying Coalition**.
- The page states that in **2019**, **the SafeUT Commission is currently working with several states to implement similar programs** — the page does not name states or document completed rollouts, and the sentence is dated to 2019 on a page whose footer reads **2026**.
- The page does **not** establish that other states have fully copied SafeUT — only that Utah officials were working with several states as of the page's 2019-tense wording.

## Verbatim

> "The program was developed with funding from the Utah State Legislature in collaboration with the Utah Attorney General's Office, the University Neuropsychiatric Institute (UNI) and U of U Health, the Utah State Board of Education, and the Utah Anti-Bullying Coalition."
> — program origins

> "In 2019, there are plans to expand services to the Utah National Guard and the The SafeUT Commission is currently working with several states to implement similar programs."
> — expansion paragraph (capture preserves page wording including the duplicated "the")

> "SafeUT allows students to open a two-way messaging service with licensed clinicians, call a crisis counselor directly, or submit confidential tips to school administrators on bullying, threats, violence, etc."
> — app functions

## Reliability Notes

Self-reported by a Utah state agency. Strongest for naming founding partners and legislative authorization narrative. The "several states" sentence is **not current-tense evidence** without a dated primary follow-up; treat it as a lead that other states expressed interest circa 2019, not as proof of national replication.

## Related Pages

- [SafeUT](safeut.md)
- [Source: Utah HB373 (2019) — SafeUT Crisis Line Statute](safeut-utah-code-hb373.md)