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Cheyenne council adopts administrative inspection‑warrant ordinance after tight debate over wording
Summary
After hours of testimony and legal objections, Cheyenne’s governing body amended and approved an ordinance authorizing limited administrative inspection warrants for four narrowly defined situations — abandoned buildings, inspections tied to building permits, post‑fire investigations and scheduled commercial fire inspections — and added a reporting requirement to increase transparency.
The Cheyenne governing body approved an ordinance on third reading that creates a limited administrative inspection‑warrant procedure for narrowly specified circumstances, following intense public comment and legal debate over a line that opponents warned could authorize unconstitutional "general warrants."
Patricia McCoy, representing several residents who spoke to the council, urged the removal of the words "determine" and "discover" from the ordinance text, arguing those terms would allow fishing expeditions into private property contrary to Wyoming constitution precedent. "If an inspector does not already have probable cause that a specific violation exists, they have no…
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