In 1988, after a door-to-door cleaning supply salesman from Chicago raped a 19-year-old American Fork woman in her home, the city enacted tough new laws to protect residents from solicitors.
In recent weeks, after a lawsuit by cleaning company Kirby of Utah and Idaho and some of its independent distributors, the city enacted a new, less stringent ordinance that requires only a statewide, not a nationwide, criminal background check.
