The claim
The city published sponsors' home addresses
“You have printed out and mailed extremely expensive card stock covered packets to every city resident with our signatures and addresses that were not redacted as other cities have done.”
Seen: Referendum organizing post, Eagle Mountain Facebook group, October 2026. First seen October 7, 2026.
True as far as it goes, and it leaves out something that changes the picture.
The city's pamphlet does carry the sponsors' home addresses and signatures, and the liaison's phone number and email, unredacted. State law requires the pamphlet to include the application, and the application to contain those details, but Salt Lake County blacked them out of its own pamphlet in January. This page found no record that Eagle Mountain mailed printed copies to every household.
The numbers
What’s true
The pamphlet the city posted on September 14 reproduces the referendum application page by page: each sponsor's name, home address and notarized signature, and the sponsor liaison's phone number and email address. Salt Lake County's pamphlet for its own property tax referendum, posted January 7, 2026, kept the sponsors' names and blacked out their addresses, phone numbers, emails and signatures. So redacting is something another Utah government has done.
What it leaves out
The law cuts against the motive alleged. Utah Code § 20A-7-401.5(3)(a) says the pamphlet shall include “a copy of the application,” and § 20A-7-602(2) says the application must contain each sponsor's name and residence address and the liaison's phone number and email address. Neither section mentions redacting them, and practice varies: Marriott-Slaterville's 2026 referendum pamphlet printed its sponsors' addresses in full. The comparison going round is to Salt Lake City; the redacted pamphlet this page found is Salt Lake County's.
More detail
On the mailing. For a city, the statute requires emailing the pamphlet to every resident whose email address it holds, posting it on Utah's public notice site and the city's home page, and, if the city regularly mails a newsletter or utility bill, printing the web address in the next one (§ 20A-7-401.5(5)). It does not require mailing printed copies. Whether Eagle Mountain mailed them, how many and at what cost is in no meeting or document this page has. A records request to the city recorder would settle it.
Whether any of this was meant to expose the sponsors is not something a document can show, and this card doesn't try to.
Where this comes from
Every finding here is drawn from an open-meeting recording or a published document. Check it yourself.
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More checks on how it was decided
- Unsupported by the recordThe tax was rushed through in secret
- Accurate, but incompleteSigning the petition repeals the tax
- Not accurateThe mayor's pamphlet argument was filed late
- Not settledThe vote was pushed to August to keep turnout low
Checked October 7, 2026. Nothing goes on the fact-check list unless an open-meeting recording or a published document can settle it: the rules. Spot a mistake? civicrollcall@gmail.com