All three flags were not included in the list of flags approved to be flown outside of government or in schools. The new flags would not replace the city’s primary flag, which was adopted in 2020.
Salt Lake City adopts 3 new flags to bypass
and circumvent new state flag law
The new flags would add the sego lily logo from Salt Lake City’s city flag to the Juneteenth, Progress Pride and transgender flags
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Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, left, sits in front of Salt Lake City's four new flags as she unveils the flag designs to members of the Salt Lake City Council inside the Salt Lake City-County Building on Tuesday evening. Carter Williams, KSL.com
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall, left, sits in front of Salt Lake City's four new flags as she unveils the flag designs to members of the Salt Lake City Council inside the Salt Lake City-County Building on Tuesday evening. Carter Williams, KSL.com
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. . .HB77, which goes into law on Wednesday, lists which flags can be flown at schools and government buildings. U.S., Utah, county, municipal, tribal, military and Olympic flags are among the approved flags, while flags representing the LGBTQ communities and the Juneteenth flag — used to celebrate the holiday where the last slaves were freed after the Civil War — were not included.
Rep. Trevor Lee, R-Layton, the bill’s sponsor, said the measure is about maintaining political neutrality in public spaces.
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