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Council hears plan to comply with state privacy rules for changing rooms and restrooms
Summary
City staff explained a state mandate requiring a privacy compliance plan for changing rooms and privacy spaces; council placed the privacy compliance resolution on the consent agenda and approved it.
City staff briefed the council on the state’s statutory changes that require local governments to adopt a privacy compliance plan addressing access to changing rooms and certain privacy spaces in public facilities.
Staff said the law applies narrowly to public facilities that include “changing rooms” (defined in the statute as multi‑person locker rooms) and requires four main elements: (1) a reporting protocol for alleged criminal offenses in privacy spaces (staff who receive a complaint must notify local law enforcement), (2) a requirement that law enforcement prioritize and investigate such complaints as appropriate, (3) an instruction to include at least one single‑occupant privacy facility in new public buildings, and (4) an evaluation of retrofit options for existing privacy spaces to improve privacy. The staff presentation emphasized that the requirements primarily affect recreation and pool locker‑room spaces.
When asked, staff confirmed that the privacy compliance plan to be adopted by resolution on the consent agenda is Orem’s implementation of those statutory directions; staff described the plan as largely procedural to satisfy the state mandate.
The council approved the privacy compliance resolution as part of the consent items.
