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Committee approves bill letting Office of Homeland Security receive law-enforcement-sensitive information
Summary
The Judiciary Committee voted to advance House Bill 50, a committee bill that authorizes the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security to receive law-enforcement-sensitive information on a need-to-know basis. Members adopted an amendment making the law effective immediately; final committee vote was 7-2.
The House Judiciary Committee voted 7-2 to report House Bill 50 favorably after testimony and an amendment to make the bill effective immediately.
House Bill 50 is a committee bill presented on behalf of the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security. Director Lynn Budd and deputy director George Nykin described the bill as narrowly intended to permit the office to receive law-enforcement-sensitive information from other agencies on a need-to-know basis to carry out statutory duties, including recent tasks assigned to the office and the Division of Criminal Investigation related to critical infrastructure protection.
Director Budd explained that the provision is modeled on the security-clearance concept: receiving agencies would see law-enforcement information only where there is a demonstrated need…
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