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Director denies request to force DPS to produce statewide machine-readable registry export
Summary
The Government Records Office denied a request by Courtney Johns for a machine-readable statewide extract of public offender-registry fields, finding that producing the dataset in the requested form would require compiling and formatting not required under GRAMA despite the registry's public website availability.
The Government Records Office director denied an appeal seeking a machine-readable statewide export of public fields from the Department of Public Safety’s offender registry, concluding that producing the dataset in the requested form would require compiling and formatting beyond GRAMA’s requirements.
Courtney Johns, representing herself, asked the office to order DPS to release registry data in CSV or Excel limited to fields that Utah law makes public, arguing that the website’s limited interface (search radius…
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