Director Pearson of the Government Records Office granted Logan City’s petition on Sept. 23, 2025, finding that resident Brady Eames’s pattern of records requests and communications met the statutory standard for designation as a vexatious requester and ordering a one-year bar on fulfilling records requests submitted by or on behalf of Eames.

The ruling matters because it relieves Logan City of a legal obligation to process repeated and voluminous requests that city counsel said were consuming staff time and municipal resources; either party may appeal the written order within 30 days.

Mohammed Abdullahi, counsel representing Logan City, told the hearing that the office should consider three statutorily relevant factors: the number of requests submitted, the scope and nature of the communications, and any pattern of conduct that substantially interferes with government operations. “Since 04/29/2025, Mr. Eames has submitted approximately 48 separate records requests,” Abdullahi said, and many of those requests were broad or lacked reasonable specificity, requiring staff to guess what records were sought.

Abdullahi gave examples he said illustrated the burden on staff: a request for “each contract signed by the mayor” with no time frame, which the city interpreted as covering the mayor’s entire tenure and would require locating hundreds of contracts across departments; a September request that sought nonexistent certification documents related to municipal communications license tax filings; and repeated re‑requests for records the city had already provided. Abdullahi also said communications from Eames sometimes used “accusatory and offensive language” toward city employees and outside officials, and that Eames had once paid for documents that he never picked up, which the city viewed as an attempt to generate work rather than review records.

Director Pearson described reviewing the petition and the exhibits and said the case turned on the totality of the circumstances. “I find based on the totality of the circumstances that Logan City has met its burden of demonstrating that Mr. Eames’s conduct qualifies as vexatious,” Pearson said at the hearing, citing the number, scope and content of the requests and communications. Pearson ordered that Logan City is not required to fulfill requests submitted by or on behalf of Eames for a period of one year from the written order that will be issued within seven business days. The director explicitly applied the relief to any requests that were pending at the time of the ruling.

Abdullahi told the director the city had been processing recent requests while the petition was pending and that staff time tracking had lapsed after earlier years because the volume became too burdensome to maintain in a spreadsheet. He said the city had received “maybe 40‑something emails from him just this year,” that search and coordination across departments were time consuming, and that preparing the petition itself took days of staff work.

The director noted the petitioner had previously been designated vexatious and said that, because Eames’s behavior had not changed, full one‑year relief was warranted. The director also reminded parties that the written order will include appeal rights. The transcript shows Mr. Eames did not appear at the hearing; counsel for the petitioner represented Logan City in his absence.

Ending details: The written order will be issued within seven business days; either Logan City or Eames may appeal within 30 days of that written order. The director also stated during the hearing that mediation communications are privileged and not admissible in this proceeding.