Chapter 1

General Provisions

Section 1.Authority.  The Division of Criminal Investigation, Office of the Attorney General hereby promulgates these rules pursuant to its rulemaking authority found in Wyoming Statute § 7-19-105.

Section 2.Purpose.  The purpose of these rules is to implement the legislative mandate to:

(a)Promulgate standards and procedures to ensure the security and privacy of criminal history information and to limit the use of such information to criminal justice and other lawful purposes;

(b)Promulgate standards and procedures, in conformance with the Wyoming Criminal History Records Act, relating to access and dissemination of criminal history record information, research, system security, record completeness and accuracy, training, and intrastate and interstate exchanges;

(c)Establish audit practices; and

(d)Establish sanctions to be imposed upon contributors and recipients of criminal history record information for non-compliance with these rules or the Wyoming Criminal History Record Act.

Section 3.Statutory Changes.  Whenever these rules refer to Wyoming statutes and these statutes are renumbered or amended, these rules shall be interpreted to reflect such changes.