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Davis County leaders agree to move ahead on privacy coordinator amid tight state timelines
Summary
County commissioners and staff discussed implementing Utah’s Government Data Privacy Act, agreed to advance a coordinator position in the budget and involve county hiring managers, and outlined that comprehensive compliance will require policy, inventories and multi-department coordination and could take up to two years.
Davis County commissioners and staff used a work meeting to map next steps for implementing Utah’s Government Data Privacy Act, agreeing to advance a newly created privacy-coordinator position in the county budget while debating where the role should reside.
The county’s records lead told commissioners the act reaches beyond computer systems and includes any county record containing personal, identifiable information — whether paper forms, microfilm or online applications — and said the county must identify every ‘process’ that collects personal data, prepare citizen-facing notices and adopt a countywide privacy policy. The records official said the work will affect records specialists across departments and…
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