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Utah's Administrative Office of the Courts would be required under this bill to livestream all public court proceedings — including hearings and trials — and post a free recording of each livestream on a court website within three business days, keeping it available for at least one year. Courts could skip or suspend a livestream if a judge finds, based on the specific case, that streaming risks harming a fair trial, compromising a victim's rights, endangering someone's safety or a minor's wellbeing, or invading personal privacy, and that no less restrictive option — such as audio-only access or pausing the stream for certain testimony — would address the concern. The bill also requires courts to take steps to prevent broadcasting jurors, minors' faces, non-public exhibits, private bench or chambers discussions, and confidential attorney-client communications, and to censor any such material from recordings before they are posted publicly.