Privacy in Utah for first responders
What state law protects, what still leaks, and what we sweep beyond it.
U.C.A. §63G-2-302 GRAMA covers personnel + property, §41-1a-116 DPS DMV, §20A voter.
Safe at Home
Utah maintains a state-level program that lets eligible officers, judges, and other protected workers use a substitute address for public records.
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- Utah Code §53-18-103 (Title 53, Chapter 18): protection of personal information of public safety employees. File the agency form to stop government internet posting of your details. Send a written demand (effective four years) to a private business displaying your personal information; a court can impose a civil penalty of up to $1,000 for noncompliance.
- Utah Code §63G-2-305 (GRAMA): protected-records classification for qualifying personal information, including a home address or phone number you had to give a government entity under a legal requirement with a reasonable expectation of confidentiality. File with each agency that holds your records; protected records are withheld from standard public-records requests.
- Utah Code §77-38-603 (Safe at Home): substitute-address program. Eligibility is victim-based (domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking). Sworn officers are not categorically eligible for being on the job.
Applicable laws
On the sources for this page: The statutes below were checked against the Utah Legislature's official code and secondary legal databases in 2026. Statute text and section numbers change. Verify the current version against Utah's official records before you file or rely on a specific provision.
What protects you in Utah
Utah has a statute written for this. Title 53, Chapter 18 protects the personal information of public safety employees, and it works two ways.
The first is the government side. You can file a form with a state or local agency that holds your records. Once you do, the agency must stop posting your personal information online: home address, home and personal phone numbers, personal email, and similar details. County clerks also classify your voter registration and marriage license records as private on request.
The second is the private side. Utah Code §53-18-103 lets you send a written demand to a business that is displaying your personal information online, telling it to stop. The demand stays in effect for four years. If a business ignores a court order to comply, a court can impose a civil penalty of up to $1,000. This is the closest Utah has to a broker-removal law. It is similar in idea to New Jersey's Daniel's Law, which lets covered officers demand that data brokers remove their home address. The limit: you generally have to identify each business, make the demand yourself, and enforce it through the courts.
GRAMA (the Government Records Access and Management Act) is the general public-records lever. Utah Code §63G-2-305 classifies certain records as protected, including a home address or phone number you had to give a government entity under a legal requirement when you reasonably expected it to stay confidential. Protected records are withheld from standard public-records requests. Classification happens through the agency that holds the record, so file with each one: your department, the county recorder, the assessor.
The Safe at Home program under §77-38-603 is Utah's substitute-address program, but sworn officers are not eligible just for being on the job. It was written for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking. If you qualify as a victim, it gives you a substitute address that state and local agencies must accept. Otherwise, use the Title 53 and GRAMA paths above.
What still leaks
- County property and recorder records filed before you act. Classification and redaction only reach what you have filed for. If your home address is already published, you still need each county to redact it through its protect-records process.
- Court filings. Civil suits and divorce filings often list your home address. GRAMA and Title 53 classification do not reach court records. Utah has no first-responder-specific court redaction statute beyond the general GRAMA process.
- Out-of-state brokers. Spokeo, Whitepages, BeenVerified, and similar sites pull from out-of-state aggregators. Many will not act on a Utah statute, and a written demand only works if you can identify the operator and pursue it.
Laws that work for you here
- Utah Code §53-18-103 (Title 53, Chapter 18): the public-safety-employee protection statute. File the agency form to stop government posting, and send a written demand to a private business displaying your information. The demand lasts four years, and a court can fine noncompliance up to $1,000.
- Utah Code §63G-2-305 (GRAMA): classifies qualifying government records as protected so they stay out of standard public-records requests. File with each agency that holds your records.
- Safe at Home (Utah Code §77-38-603): substitute-address program. Eligibility is victim-based, not automatic for sworn officers.
- Driver's Privacy Protection Act (DPPA): a federal law that limits when the personal information in your motor vehicle records can be released. It covers your Utah DMV data regardless of state law.
What we handle that the state doesn't
The classifications and demands above close the government path and give you a lever against individual businesses. We work the broker path. We file opt-outs across the major people-search sites, then keep checking, because listings come back. Property transactions are a common trigger: once a county recorder publishes a sale, your address can flow back onto broker feeds. We keep watching for it and refile when it reappears. When a site needs something from you, like an ID to verify a removal, we tell you clearly.
Your name may be public. Your home address, and the people who live at it, should not be. Run a free scan to see which sites list your Utah address.