Meet the Team

Our Mission

To promote privacy as a cornerstone of public trust by supporting governmental entities in protecting personal data, fostering transparency, and empowering individuals to maintain control over their information.

Our Scope

The Utah Office of Data Privacy serves state agencies and provides optional resources to assist local governments, including cities, counties, school districts, and public institutions of higher education. Our work spans a wide range of governmental entities and programs to ensure privacy protection is prioritized statewide.

Overview of Our Statutory Duties and Activities

The Utah Office of Data Privacy performs a wide range of duties, which include:

• Privacy Framework: Creating and maintaining a privacy framework to assist governmental entities to implement effective and efficient privacy programs, practices, tools, and systems .
• Legislative Review: Analyzing privacy laws to identify gaps, resolve conflicts, and recommend improvements.
• Education and Training: Providing privacy training programs to governmental employees, emphasizing the interplay between privacy, security, and records management.
• Risk Monitoring: Identifying and monitoring high-risk data processing activities of governmental entities.
• Incident Response: Collaborating with the Cyber Center to establish an incident response plan for data breaches affecting governmental entities.
• Records Integration: Coordinating with the state archivist to align data privacy with records management practices.
• Public Empowerment: Enabling individuals to submit complaints about a governmental entity's data privacy practice to the Privacy Ombudsperson.
• Expert Assistance: Offering expertise and assistance to governmental entities for high risk data processing activities, as resources permit.