Privacy in Wyoming for first responders

On the sources for this page: The statute citations below were verified through legal-code aggregators (FindLaw and the Reporters Committee open-government guide), not the Wyoming Legislature's official site. They're accurate to the best of our knowledge as of July 2026. Confirm the exact code section against official state records before you file or rely on it.

What protects you in Wyoming

Wyoming has no privacy law written for first responders. There's no Address Confidentiality Program, so you can't register a substitute address for public records. There's no broker-removal statute like New Jersey's Daniel's Law, the law that lets covered officers make data brokers take down their home address. There's no DMV election for officers and no voter-roll confidentiality option. What the state gives you is two general personnel-file exemptions, and little else.

Both sit in the Wyoming Public Records Act. W.S. §16-4-203(d)(iii) lets a records custodian withhold the personnel files of a government employee. W.S. §16-4-203(d)(xi) covers records gathered to investigate internal personnel-rule violations. Both are discretionary, so a custodian may withhold the file but isn't required to. Both apply to government employees in general, not to sworn officers specifically. Neither one hides your home address where it actually shows up: property records, voter rolls, and court filings all stay public.

The federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act, the DPPA, limits when a state DMV can share the personal information in your driver's license and vehicle records. It applies the same way in Wyoming as everywhere else. That's the floor, and it's most of what state and federal law gives you here.

In practice, the data-broker sites are where your information spreads and where removal work matters. State law does little about them.

What still leaks

1. County property records. Wyoming county recorders publish deed transfers, tax assessments, and mortgage filings. The state has no redaction process for officer property records.
2. Voter rolls. Wyoming has no voter-confidentiality designation. In 2025 and 2026, the secretary of state turned over voter-roll data to the U.S. Department of Justice, including driver's license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. It shows how loosely that data is held.
3. Court filings and out-of-state brokers. Civil filings often list addresses. People-search sites like Spokeo, Whitepages, and BeenVerified don't answer to Wyoming law. They pull from national aggregators that already copied your data.

What we do that the state doesn't

Wyoming's officer protections stop at two discretionary personnel-file exemptions, and the DPPA sets a federal floor for DMV records. Neither reaches the data-broker sites that publish your home address, phone number, and relatives. That's where we work.

We find your listings across the major people-search and data-broker sites, file opt-out and removal requests, and keep checking, because listings come back. When a site needs something from you to finish a removal, we'll tell you clearly. We target the records that tie your name to your home address and the people who live there.