§ 9-1-627 — Authority to compile, disseminate and exchange information; immunity; access to information limited; security precautions

Wyoming § 9-1-627

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 09: Administration of the Government
• Ch. 1: STATE OFFICERS
• Art. 6: ATTORNEY GENERAL

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(a) Any law enforcement officer, the attorney general and
his deputies and assistants, and any prosecuting attorney may:
(i) Take fingerprints, photographs and other
information relating to criminal identification;
(ii) Compile reports or other documents in writing
containing criminal intelligence information, including
statements taken from police informants and reports based on the
investigation and surveillance of suspected criminal activity;
(iii) Disseminate and exchange criminal
identification data and criminal intelligence information among
themselves and among law enforcement agencies of other states,
tribes or of the federal government.
(b) A person authorized under this section to disseminate
or exchange information is not civilly or criminally liable for
contributing or for disseminating to authorized persons criminal
identification data or criminal intelligence information.
(c) Access to criminal identification and intelligence
information is available to law enforcement agencies, the state
board of parole and department of corrections as provided by
W.S. 7-13-401 through 7-13-411, any agency designated for the
purpose provided by W.S. 14-6-227 and the department of family
services. Each agency which has that information shall take
reasonable security precautions to prevent unauthorized persons
from gaining access to it in accordance with rules and
procedures established by the division. The rules and
procedures may be varied between agencies, depending upon the
division's determination of the agency's use of the criminal
identification and intelligence information and the adequacy of
the agency's security of the information provided by the
division under this section.
(d) Access to criminal history record information is
available to the Wyoming gaming commission as provided for by
law. The commission shall take reasonable security precautions
to prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to criminal
history record information in accordance with rules and
regulations established by the Wyoming division of criminal
investigation. For the purpose of this subsection "criminal
history record information" means information, records and data
compiled by criminal justice agencies on individuals for the
purpose of identifying criminal offenders consisting of
identifiable descriptions of the offenders and notations or a
summary of arrests, detentions, indictments, information, pre-
trial proceedings, nature and disposition of criminal charges,
sentencing, rehabilitation, incarceration, correctional
supervision and release. Criminal history record information is
limited to information recorded as the result of the initiation
of criminal proceedings. It does not include intelligence data,
analytical prosecutorial files, investigative reports and files
of statistical records and reports in which individual
identities are not ascertainable.