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Shredding paper. Folding laundry. Utahns with disabilities work segregated, repetitive jobs — and the DOJ may sue over it.

“I just felt like I was being hidden from the real world,” said one woman who has worked in sheltered workshops and other employment programs for people with intellectual disabilities.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) An employee working at EnableUtah in Ogden on Tuesday, July 2, 2024. A three-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice found that Utah is violating federal law by relying too heavily on programs which keep Utahns with intellectual disabilities away from the community — and instead congregates them together in work settings where they have little chance to interact with non-disabled people.