§ 19-13-105 — Homeland security program

(a) The office of homeland security within the governor's
office is created. The governor shall appoint a deputy director
of the office of homeland security. The director may appoint
such assistants as may be necessary. The director and his
assistants shall be compensated in an amount to be determined
and fixed by the Wyoming human resources division. The deputy
director shall serve at the pleasure of the governor and may be
removed as provided in W.S. 9-1-202.
(b) The director may employ technical, clerical,
stenographic and other personnel and make such expenditures
within the appropriations or from other funds made available to
him for purposes of homeland security as necessary to carry out
this act. He shall be provided with necessary and appropriate
office space, furniture, equipment, stationery and printing in
the same manner as for personnel of other state agencies.
(c) The director is the administrative head of the Wyoming
office of homeland security. In addition to the duties
described in W.S. 19-13-104(d) the director:
(i) Shall be responsible to the governor for the
implementation of the state program for homeland security for
Wyoming;
(ii) Shall assist the local authorities and
organizations in the planning and development of local homeland
security plans and programs;
(iii) Shall coordinate the activities of all
organizations for homeland security within the state, including
all state departments;
(iv) Shall maintain liaison with and cooperate with
homeland security agencies and programs of other states and of
the federal government;
(v) Shall have additional authority, duties and
responsibilities authorized by this act as may be prescribed by
the governor or the director;
(vi) May prescribe reasonable qualifications for
officers and employees of local programs and reasonable
regulations for the administration of local programs; and
(vii) Shall assist and coordinate with local, state,
tribal and federal law enforcement agencies to employ the
integrated public alert and warning system or successor system
to notify residents of imminent threat by natural disaster or
manmade event or to aid in the safe recovery of missing or
endangered persons, which adheres to United States department of
justice criteria. The director shall also assist local, state,
tribal and federal law enforcement agencies integrate additional
missing persons alert communications networks that enable and
help facilitate search efforts for an adult at risk or other
missing person of an age, needs or circumstances that may fall
outside the scope of the America's missing: broadcast emergency
response alert criteria. As used in this paragraph "adult at
risk" means an adult who has a developmental disability, who
suffers from Alzheimer's disease or dementia, or who suffers
from or could, without access to medication, suffer from
cognitive impairment if the impairment would likely render the
adult incapable of getting to a familiar location without
assistance.
(d) The deputy director shall perform duties as assigned
by the director and in the absence of the director he is the
administrative head of the Wyoming office of homeland security.
(e) The office of homeland security may receive and share
criminal identification, intelligence and criminal history
information available to law enforcement agencies for the
purposes provided by W.S. 19-13-103.