Jessica Miller

Legal affairs reporter

Jessica covers legal affairs and criminal justice for The Tribune, where she has worked since 2011. She was part of the team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. When she's not working, she enjoys spending time in Utah's mountains.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill speaks during a press announcement on Thursday, July 22, 2021. On Friday, Gill announced that a sheriff’s deputy was legally justified when he shot and killed a man in April who had just shot him and another officer.

Justified ruling in fatal police shooting of man who shot deputy in eye, grazed another

By Jessica Miller | October 22, 2021, 9:09 p.m.

(Andrew Harnik | AP) Hotel heiress and reality television star Paris Hilton, left, walks through the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. Hilton was on Capitol Hill Wednesday to lend her celebrity to support legislation to establish a bill of rights for children placed in congregate care facilities.

Paris Hilton and activists brought change to Utah’s ‘troubled-teen’ industry. Now, they are pushing for a new federal law.

By Jessica Miller | David Fuchs | October 20, 2021, 10:23 p.m.

(Jacquelyn Martin | AP) People wearing hats and patches indicating they are part of Oath Keepers attend a rally at Freedom Plaza Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Washington, in support of President Donald Trump.

Who’s on Utah’s hacked Oath Keeper rolls? Police, veterans and a top government official

By Jeff Parrott | Jessica Miller | October 13, 2021, 3:26 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jessica Miller has been a criminal justice reporter at The Tribune for 10 years. She helped form the news organization’s mugshot policy.

Jessica Miller: Why you won’t see mug shots on The Tribune’s pages

By Jessica Miller | October 8, 2021, 4:07 p.m.

(Chris Detrick | The Salt Lake Tribune)
Attorney Karra Porter speaks during a Judiciary Interim Committee Wednesday, November 15, 2017. Porter filed a lawsuit on Monday challenging Utah's cash-bail system. She said more litigation will be coming if Utah officials don't change their practices.

Lawsuit challenges Utah’s cash-based bail system

By Jessica Miller | October 4, 2021, 9:13 p.m.

(Paighten Harkins | The Salt Lake Tribune) Police cadets participate in simulation training on Dec. 2, 2020, at the Peace Officer Standards and Training academy at the Salt Lake Community College Miller Campus in Sandy. Experts say improved training could be one way to reduce the number of police shootings.

What Utah police can do to reduce the times they shoot at minorities

By Paighten Harkins | Jessica Miller | September 22, 2021, 3:22 p.m.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) Olivia Herrera and Bryan's son, Luciano Pena-Valencia place a flower on the memorial for Bryan Pena-Valencia on Saturday, March 20, 2021.

A Utah first: Data that shows the race of people police shoot at

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Prison staff work to safely move inmates from their cells into the common day room to be vaccinated against COVID-19 during a vaccination event with interested incoming inmates at the Utah State Prison in Draper on Tuesday, July 27, 2021.

Utah’s parole board didn’t increase compassionate releases during the pandemic

By Jessica Miller | Nate Carlisle | FOX 13 News | September 15, 2021, 7:20 p.m.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Inmates who have died while in prison due to COVID-19.

Here are the men who died from COVID-19 in Utah’s prisons

By Jessica Miller | Nate Carlisle | FOX 13 News | September 13, 2021, 7:00 p.m.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Gov. Spencer Cox and First Lady Abby Cox participate in a service project at the Granite Education Foundation Donation & Distribution Center as part of the national "9/11 Day of Service” campaign on Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. Service is one of the first lady’s four focus areas under the Show Up initiative, to honor the memory of the heroes of Sept. 11, 2001.

‘We are one Utah’: Gov. Spencer Cox urges unity during service event in remembrance of 9/11

By Jessica Miller | September 11, 2021, 9:03 p.m.