PRESERVING ACCESS
to Utah Public Lands
Team PLPCO
Utah’s Public Lands Policy and Coordinating Office (PLPCO) is staffed by a team of policy, GIS, research, and legal professionals who work for PLPCO, and attorneys from the Public Lands Section of the Office of the Attorney General.
Public Lands Office
Redge Johnson
Director
Mark Boshell
Deputy Director
Dillon Hoyt
Deputy Director
Michelle Baragona
GIS Program Manager
Kris Carambelas
Archeology and Cultural Resources Program Manager
Clay Crozier
Legal Counsel
Christina Houtrouw
Executive Assistant
Mike Hyde
Research Consultant
Kendall Laws
Legal Counsel
Jordan Lewis
GIS Analyst
Nancy Merrill
Administrative Assistant
Jason Moore
Financial Analyst
Sindy Smith
RDCC Coordinator
Nicole Neilson
Planning Program Manager
Hussein Yazdani
Senior GIS Analyst
Shea Owens
Legal Counsel
Bruce Pickett
Legal Counsel
Attorney General's Office
Kathy Davis
Asst. Attorney General, Public Lands Section Director
Tess Davis
Asst. Attorney General
Jason DeForest
Asst. Attorney General
Roger Fairbanks
Asst. Attorney General
Stephen Kaiser
Asst. Attorney General
Rachelle Shumway
Asst. Attorney General
Contact Our Staff
We are not the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that is closing roads on public lands in Utah.
Instead, our office is working to keep roads open and promote multiple-use activities on public lands.
To reach any of our staff, please email publiclands@utah.gov
Government Records Access Management Act
The Government Records Access Management Act (GRAMA) went into effect in 1992. GRAMA sets guidelines for classifying all types of data and information in Utah government records based upon who has rights to access that information. Government works under the double requirement of public transparency and protecting private information.
To access information from the Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office, please fill out and submit a GRAMA request form by filling out the online GRAMA request form or returning a printed form with signature by mail, fax or email to our agency.
Once a form is received by the GRAMA coordinator, PLPCO has 10 business days in which to respond. Under the Utah GRAMA rule (Utah Code 63G-2), a reasonable administrative service fee can be (and normally is) assessed for both hard copies and staff time to search, retrieve, summarize, compile and/or tailor requested records.
Address:
Utah's Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office
1594 W. North Temple, STE 320
Salt Lake City, UT 84116
Email: dillonhoyt@utah.gov
Open Records Portal:
www.openrecords.utah.gov