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Utah law already lets crime victims file complaints when they believe their rights under state victims' rights laws or the state constitution have been violated, and this bill restructures how those complaints are handled. Instead of each local victim rights committee independently receiving and screening complaints, the bill creates a coordinator position, appointed by the executive director of the State Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, who receives complaints submitted to the Utah Victim Services Commission, notifies victims within 30 days, screens out complaints that don't meet basic requirements or repeat an earlier complaint, and forwards valid complaints to the appropriate local committee for review. The bill also expands the definition of "victim" to explicitly include minors and clarifies that a "victim's right" includes certain obligations prosecutors owe victims under court rules. After a committee reviews a complaint, it must notify both the victim and the person accused of violating the right of its findings within 30 days, and law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, the Department of Corrections, and similar agencies must maintain written policies for handling victim rights complaints and share those policies with the coordinator upon request.