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Weber County officials review GRAMA workload, NextRequest costs and steps to digitize archives
Summary
County staff presented a 2024 GRAMA (public-records) report showing the sheriff’s office accounts for the majority of requests, sparking discussion about fee policy, internal cost allocation and plans to scan marriage licenses and other records into an online archive.
Weber County Commission members reviewed a 2024 GRAMA report and discussed whether fees and internal cost allocations should change after staff said one department—Sheriff’s Office—accounts for the bulk of requests.
The discussion began as Janie Avery, records staff, briefed commissioners on the county’s GRAMA statistics and the county’s use of NextRequest, the public-records portal. “The first 15 minutes are free. You can’t charge for those. But past 15 minutes . . . you can,” Avery said, summarizing the county’s current charging practice under state rules as presented to the commission.
The nut graf: the commission weighed options to recoup more of the county’s GRAMA costs after staff showed that requests have risen sharply since the county adopted NextRequest in late 2019 and that the Sheriff’s Office generates a very high share of the work. Commissioners…
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