The agencies of Wyoming exist to conduct public business. Certain deliberations and actions shall be taken openly as provided in this act.
Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 16-4-401
Statement of purpose
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Jerry Peterson v. Laramie City Council (2024)
Most recently applied in Thomas Hamann v. Heart Mountain Irrigation District, a Wyoming Public Irrigation District (July 2025)
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Wyoming Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wyoming statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.