An index covering from 1916 to 1975 for Salt Lake County criminal case files is now online. This series functions as an index to access the criminal case files and registers of actions. Individual entries record the name of defendants involved in criminal actions and provide the following information: name of the defendant, assigned case number, page number for the …
Attorney Records Retention Schedule for Your Input
We would like to propose new general retention schedules for criminal and civil case files to the State Records Committee at their next meeting on September 14th. You can see them all on our website here. If you have any questions, or changes you would like to see to these general retention schedules, please notify Rebekkah Shaw at rshaw@utah.gov or 801-531-3851.
Newly Processed: April 2015
All public records at the Utah State Archives are accessible through the Research Center. However, once processed the records are easier to use with proper storage and fuller descriptions, including online series inventories. The following list includes record series that were processed during April 2015: District Court (Sixth District : Kane County) Bonds, 1897-1979. District Court (Sixth District : Kane …
Newly Processed: January-February 2015
All public records at the Utah State Archives are accessible through the Research Center. However, once processed the records are easier to use with proper storage and fuller descriptions, including online series inventories. The following list includes record series that were processed during January and February 2015: District Court (Second District : Davis County) Criminal case files, 1896- District Court …
Territorial Third District Case File Index Online
The territorial CASE INDEX for the Third District Court is now online. It records the names of plaintiffs and defendants involved in court actions and provides assigned case numbers, facilitating clerical management of and access to the case files. Civil cases span the entire period (1871-1896). Criminal cases were indexed in this series from 1871 to 1882, when a separate …
Police Evidence of Extortion in Ogden
Recently, as the Archives staff was working with Ogden City to review historic records from Ogden held in the Archives, we ran across some mysterious records. The records were in the format of 24 large glass negatives, 11” x 14”. They had been identified simply as documents from the Ogden City Police Department. In order to determine more exactly what …