Statements, reports and papers
Everything Utah Civic Compact has published, newest first.
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Your license plate has a price, and the government isn't the only buyer
Private customers feed the same plate-reader networks Utah agencies use, and plate data collected privately is already sold to insurers.
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Twenty-Five Years Later, the Compact Still Holds
A call to make the Dignity Index a standard part of Utah public life.
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If Weber County Followed the Law, How Did This Happen?
Utah has some of the strongest ALPR laws in the country. This policy paper asks whether those laws describe the system Utah agencies actually purchased — reading the Utah Code against the Weber County–Flock Safety contract, clause by clause.
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Ten Cameras, 5.1 Million Police Searches
Weber County, Utah operates ten license plate reader cameras. Records released under GRAMA show 3,343 law enforcement agencies in 45 states ran 5,171,087 searches against them between February 2022 and July 2026 — 96.6% from outside Utah.
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The Page We Were Never Given Time to Read
A signature obtained by not giving you time to read the page isn't consent. Utahns are being asked to sign a page they were never shown — and we are asking Utah's delegation to separate what does not belong together.
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Weber County Election Law Complaint
Utah Civic Compact filed a formal complaint alleging three Weber County Commission candidates violated Utah campaign finance law by failing to disclose legal fees for a bad-faith ballot disqualification lawsuit.
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The Stratos Project: MIDA Violated State Law
Utah Civic Compact documents how MIDA violated Utah Code § 63H-1 in approving Kevin O'Leary's 9-gigawatt natural gas data center in Box Elder County — including a fabricated county consent date and a welfare finding made before any impact studies began.
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Theory of Change
Utah Civic Compact's theory of change — how we organize Utah communities at the neighborhood level to build lasting civic power.
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