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Has anyone tried serving UCAN with a Government Records Access and Management Act records request (GRAMA) (Utah Code Annotated §63-2-100) for a complete and authoritative list of TGID assignments?
The law gives the state all kinds of reasons to deny requests, but it puts the burden of proof on the agency to prove that releasing the information would violate GRAMA in some way. If it is not specifically protected from release by GRAMA, then it must be made public after a request.
Public safety is one justification the agency can cite to deny a request, but they would need to prove that releasing the TGIDs would harm public safety or cite specific portions of GRAMA that explicitly deny the release of the TGID assignments. An argument could be made that leaving the media and scanner enthusiasts to guess at which TGIDs are used by their local agencies may actually endanger public safety. If residents know sooner and better of a threat in their area, they are able to make better decisions on how to protect themselves.
Anyway, I could dig into the code, case law and Records Committee decisions and get a better answer myself, but thought maybe someone here has already gone down this road.
The law gives the state all kinds of reasons to deny requests, but it puts the burden of proof on the agency to prove that releasing the information would violate GRAMA in some way. If it is not specifically protected from release by GRAMA, then it must be made public after a request.
Public safety is one justification the agency can cite to deny a request, but they would need to prove that releasing the TGIDs would harm public safety or cite specific portions of GRAMA that explicitly deny the release of the TGID assignments. An argument could be made that leaving the media and scanner enthusiasts to guess at which TGIDs are used by their local agencies may actually endanger public safety. If residents know sooner and better of a threat in their area, they are able to make better decisions on how to protect themselves.
Anyway, I could dig into the code, case law and Records Committee decisions and get a better answer myself, but thought maybe someone here has already gone down this road.