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Senate passes bill to shield online registrants’ email addresses from public records
Summary
The Utah Senate unanimously passed SB 18 to let the lieutenant governor’s office remove email addresses collected through online voter registration from public records, extending privacy protections previously limited to military registrants; the measure passed by voice and roll-call and goes to the House.
Senator Margaret Dayton, sponsor of SB 18, told the Senate the bill extends to the general public the privacy protections previously afforded to military registrants who register online. “This bill does the same thing for the general citizenry and comes to us at the request of the lieutenant governor's office to protect the email privacy of citizens who choose to register online,”…
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