Very non-coincidental that Utah has one of the highest concentrations of MLM businesses in the country.

Or the "industry" of "youth treatment" that is centered in Utah. Conversion therapy, etc.

Thousands of allegations stretching decades of abuse, physical, sexual and emotional, federal inquiries.

And still the Utah Office of Licensing rubber stamps its inspections of such facilities:

> analysis by APM Reports and The Salt Lake Tribune reveals that those inspectors almost never find violations. More than 98 percent of the time, they check the box marked "compliant." Across the 670 reports, the data reveals inspectors assessed more than 53,000 items in total. But they documented only 861 deficiencies. That means inspectors determined that treatment programs were noncompliant only 1.6 percent of the time.

> The most common ding? Not having the proper employee paperwork.

You might sit back, "entertained", by California. But pretending like Utah is some utopian vision is equally laughable, or would be if it didn't come at such a high cost.

Perhaps there's a middle ground between Utah and California.

I'm sure that's a major factor and not the fact that Utah has 1/10th of the population of California.

Perhaps bathrooms had to be charged for due to a sufficiently significant portion of the population causing damage to them.

Perhaps the California law requiring free bathrooms was a way for California leaders to shirk responsibility for providing clean bathrooms to all and foist costs onto private businesses. I always assume this is the case when government requires businesses to do provide something at a price the government sets. The politicians get all the acclaim and none of the headaches of fixing (or not really fixing) the problem, win win for them.

If Utah does not have the population that causes damage to bathrooms, then its politicians would not yet have needed to come up with a law requiring free bathrooms.