The Utah State Data Coordinator is the architect and content manager for the state’s open data portal and Spending.Utah.gov. A 2021 Utah law created the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) and the Personal Privacy Oversight Commission (PPOC) to oversee and govern data sharing, privacy, security, and technology across the state. Utah has comprehensive data governance laws (Government Records Access and Management Act, Government Data Privacy Act) to codify baseline governance requirements related to data access, sharing, governance and privacy. Utah currently has a central authority in the form of a CIO, state archivist, Chief Records Officer and a Chief Privacy Officer that, in combination, are coordinating statewide efforts related to modernizing statewide data governance and management practices in addition to a modernization of GRAMA.

Utah has an established integrated data system and team named Utah Data Research Center which is a longitudinal data system that provides research findings that are summarized and made into visualizations for easier consumption, and is the primary source for Utah data for employment, education, and health.