Male suicide & mortality
Utah's mortality reporting is unusually transparent — and the state's male suicide rate sits well above the national average. We track the data and the policy response.
Salt Lake City, Utah
Based in Utah. The work starts here.
DriveAwareness publishes nationally and watches international patterns — but the work is built in Salt Lake. Some of the most important suppression patterns are documented best at the state level. Utah is where we have the closest read.
Why Utah
The state is unusually legible.
Utah publishes more public-record data than most states, runs one of the country's first state AI policy offices, and hosts a research university — the U — with active seats in the policy, law, and communications departments most relevant to our work. The civic infrastructure to do this work well is here.
What we track here
Topics we follow at the state level.
Ad transparency at the state level
Utah's consumer-protection division publishes structured complaint data. We pair that with platform ad libraries to track who is targeting whom.
AI policy advocacy
The state has a growing AI policy footprint — Utah's Office of AI Policy is among the first dedicated state AI offices. We watch what gets proposed and what gets adopted.
Public records & open data
Utah's open-records framework is among the most workable in the West. We use it; we mirror what we obtain; we publish how we got it.
Local collaboration
Who we're building toward.
We're early in formalizing local partnerships. The relationships below are the institutions whose work fits ours. If you're at one of them and want to talk, please reach out.
University of Utah
- ·Hinckley Institute of Politics — applied policy research
- ·S.J. Quinney College of Law — First Amendment & platform speech
- ·College of Social and Behavioral Science — communications, media studies
Utah Foundation
- ·Independent civic-research think tank — annual priorities reports
Utah newsrooms
- ·The Salt Lake Tribune — nonprofit daily, civic-data desk
- ·KUER 90.1 — public radio, statehouse coverage
- ·KSL News — long-form local investigative
State agencies & libraries
- ·Utah Department of Health & Human Services — mortality and behavioral data
- ·Office of the State Auditor — open-records portal
- ·Utah State Library / Pioneer — civic archive
- ·Utah Attorney General — consumer-protection complaints
Working on Utah civic data?
Whether you're at the U, in a state agency, in a Utah newsroom, or running a local civic-tech project — there's likely overlap with what we're doing. We'd rather collaborate than duplicate.