Philip A. Janquart reports:
A legislative task force voted to endorse a proposed amendment that would add privacy and open-government protections to the Wyoming Constitution.
Wyoming lawmakers rejected a bill in June that would have amended the state constitution to prevent local and state governments from disclosing personal information.
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The amendment states that individual privacy is “essential to the well-being of a free society and shall not be infringed without the showing of a compelling state interest,” and that the amendment will not “deprive a person of any right provided by law to examine document[s] or to observe the deliberations of any agency or political subdivision of the state, except in cases in which the demand of individual privacy clearly exceeds the merits of public disclosure.”
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