Title 9 Administration of the Government

9-1-627. Authority to compile, disseminate and exchange

information; immunity; access to information limited; security precautions. (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.