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Under Utah's Government Records Access and Management Act, when someone requests a government record, the person whose conduct or records are the subject of that request currently has no explicit restriction on their ability to influence how that record is handled. This bill changes that by prohibiting anyone who is the "subject" of a records request — meaning someone named in the request or who created the record being sought — from deciding how the record is classified, participating in the government agency's review of or response to the request, or participating in any appeal related to the request. This creates a conflict-of-interest safeguard that most directly affects government employees, officials, and agency heads whose own records or actions are the subject of a public records request, preventing them from blocking or steering the outcome of that request.