Free resources for teachers, libraries and civic groups

Teachers (civics, government, U.S. and Utah history)

• Students enter their address and find their own legislators, then read three of their votes and one thing they said.
• Follow one bill from filing to the governor: every committee hearing and vote, with the video.
• Compare what a legislator promised with what the record shows, and decide for themselves.
• Where bills die: most never get a vote. Find where each one stopped and why that matters.

Libraries

• A plain-English answer to "why did my property tax go up?" for any address in Utah.
• Who represents a patron, from the Legislature to the school board, with phone numbers and email.
• Upcoming property tax hearings, with times and places, where anyone can speak.

Civic and community groups

• How every local government voted on property taxes since 2024, member by member, with the minutes.
• Who funds legislators, and who funds the PACs that fund them.
• What the year's new laws change in the taxes, fees and fines people pay.

Put it on your website

Bill and local government pages have an “Embed this” option, so you can show a vote or a tax decision on your own site, always current. Or just link to ontherecordutah.com: anyone can enter their address and see their own officials.

Questions, a class visit, or something you'd like the site to do?

Email ontherecordutah@gmail.com. For how the numbers are made, see How we check the record.