Spotlight on Tonya Smith, Utah State Hospital Records Officer

This month’s spotlight features Tonya Smith, the Medical Records Department Manager, Privacy Officer, and Records Officer for the Utah State Hospital, an inpatient psychiatric facility in Provo administered by the Department of Human Services. Tonya manages both paper and electronic patient medical records, as well as agency administrative documents. Tonya has been in this position for 17 of her 32 years working

This month’s spotlight is on Carol Miller, who works for the state of Utah in the Department of Human Services. Carol has a huge job but is always on top of it! I’ll let Carol explain more, in her own words:   I work for the Division of Child and Family Services as a program support specialist.  I’ve been working

Linda Bright is a GRAMA specialist for the Northern Region of the Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS). She has been working on GRAMA requests for the last 9 years and has been employed with DCFS for 25 years. On average, she completes as many as 60 GRAMA requests and responses per month. As part of her work in

This month we are spotlighting Alison Merchant, a receptionist and records officer at Sevier School District. Alison has been a record officer for three years, in addition to her full-time job. She works on records management whenever she can. The most challenging part of her job is finding records for Downwinder claims. If an individual graduated from high school, there

“Collaboration is the only way to accomplish a project like this.”

Zane Woolstenhulme is the Business Administrator for the Ogden City School District. In his position he responds to GRAMA and HIPAA requests. Zane has been a records officer for 29 years. He served in South Summit School District and Logan School District before working for Ogden School District. Among the statutory responsibilities of the business administrator is the responsibility to have

Anna Owen is a Program Specialist for the Department of Human Services, Division of Services for People with Disabilities (DSPD), though she is often referred to as the Records Compliance Officer. In her position she responds to GRAMA and HIPAA requests, as well as maintains the electronic records within the Division’s system, which can include both electronic and paper records management.

This month’s spotlight is a little different. We would like to honor a records officer who is retiring this week. CJ Prisbrey began working with the Salt Lake City Police Department in 1974 and has held a variety of different roles since that time. As a dispatcher in 1990 her quick thinking and calm demeanor were highlighted on the popular show Rescue 911.

  Julie LaSeure has been working with records for over a decade. She began in the field in 2001 when working at an outpatient behavioral health clinic in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Since then she has continued to create, manage, and maintain records. In 2012 Julia began working primarily with records management for Ogden City. As the Deputy Records/Records Specialist Julia has taken responsibility

Colleen Mulvey (second-to-left in picture), Cedar Hills City Recorder, was awarded the The Utah State Archives’ Excellence in Information Governance Award at our annual fall conference on Thursday, October 6, 2016. Colleen is inventive and resourceful! She uses a variety of methods to ensure accurate, manageable, and innovative preservation of Cedar Hills’ records with limited staffing resources as she maintains the agency-wide records. She also