Overview
- The Salt Lake Tribune’s report Wednesday detailed four women’s accounts that Eva Lopez Chavez restrained them during unwanted advances between 2019 and 2022.
- Lopez Chavez, through attorney Greg Skordas, denied wrongdoing, offered to take a polygraph, and said she will keep running for Congress.
- The Salt Lake City Council said it is actively reviewing the claims, and a February memo from Chair Alejandro Puy shows leaders had earlier reports and face limited discipline tools like censure or loss of privileges.
- Party leaders said they support a careful process and the accusers who spoke out, and delegates at Saturday’s Democratic convention will decide whether Lopez Chavez’s campaign advances.
- City officials have begun tightening conduct rules, including blocking one-on-one meetings between council members and staff, and the lack of police reports so far narrows options for any criminal inquiry.