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Committee advances LSO public-records draft after wide testimony; plea-agreement language added
Summary
After a lengthy working-group update and broad stakeholder testimony, the committee moved forward LSO draft 51 on public records with amendments that include treating plea agreements and nonconfidential portions of sentencing memoranda as public records. The ombudsman recommended more stakeholder work; the committee advanced the draft by roll call.
The Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee on Feb. 23 advanced a Legislative Service Office draft (26 LSO 51) that would revise Wyoming’s Public Records Act after a multi-stakeholder working group and a day of testimony.
Darlena Potter, the public records ombudsman, reviewed the working-group process and recommended pausing the measure until the general session to complete stakeholder work; she offered compromise edits — for example, acknowledging requests in 5 business days (rather than 3), providing…
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