1A Docket First Amendment · Utah

Origins · Jul 31, 2026

"I would love to label the Salt Lake Tribune as a vexatious requester"

In 2022, Utah's own press lobby handed the Legislature a phrase. The Legislature made it law the following year. Four House members voted no. The state is now using it against one of them.

Disclosure. The author works on First Amendment and public records matters in Utah and has worked with respondents in the petition described here. Published with their permission.

The room was the usual one. A Tuesday morning in the Utah Capitol, the last day of January 2022.

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