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Wyoming Management Council debates bill to list emails diverted from legislators’ inboxes as IT warns of security risk
Summary
Management Council spent much of its Nov. 19 meeting on a contested bill draft requiring the Legislative Service Office to publish addresses or domains whose messages are diverted from legislators’ inboxes. LSO IT staff warned Microsoft’s cloud filters and security concerns limit what the state can safely disclose; public testimony from Honor Wyoming urged a process to ensure constituent messages reach lawmakers.
Members of the Management Council on Nov. 19 debated a bill draft from Representative Bo Bair that would require the Legislative Service Office (LSO) to publish and periodically update a list of email addresses and domain names whose messages are diverted from legislators’ inboxes to junk or quarantine folders.
Representative Bair said the measure responds to constituents who use advocacy tools to send messages but who sometimes find their correspondence is not delivered to legislators’ main inboxes. "This bill says that if we have something go in the junk folder, we're going to obscure the name of that address or that domain name and we're going to put it on a list that our constituents can look up and see," Bair said during his presentation.
LSO technical staff described how Office 365’s cloud services classify incoming messages. Jamie Schaub, senior IT strategist at LSO, explained the system assigns a spam‑confidence and bulk score to every message and that the cloud Exchange service sets many thresholds. "With Exchange in the cloud, we do not have control of…
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