Wyo. Stat. § 35-20-115 (2026)

establishment; operation; amendment, expungement or removal of
records; classification and expungement of reports; statement of
person accused.
     (a) The department shall establish and maintain a record
of all adult protection reports and a central registry of under
investigation and substantiated adult protection cases under
this act.

     (b) Through the recording of reports, the department's
recordkeeping system shall be operated to assist the department
to:

          (i) Immediately identify and locate prior reports of
cases of abuse, neglect, exploitation, intimidation or
abandonment of a vulnerable adult to assist in the diagnosis of
suspicious circumstances and the assessment of the needs of the
vulnerable adult and his caregiver;

          (ii) Continuously monitor the current status of all
pending adult protection cases;

          (iii) Evaluate the effectiveness of existing laws and
programs through the development and analysis of statistical and
other information; and

          (iv) Maintain a central registry of "under
investigation" reports and "substantiated" reports of abuse or
neglect of vulnerable adults for provision of information to
qualifying applicants pursuant to W.S. 35-20-116. Within six
(6) months of being placed in the central registry, all reports
classified as "under investigation" shall be reclassified as
"substantiated" or expunged from the central registry, unless
the state agency is notified of an open criminal investigation
or criminal prosecution. Unsubstantiated reports shall not be
contained within the central registry.

     (c) Upon written application of the department or any
substantiated person and upon good cause shown and notice to the
department, the subject of the report and all interested
parties, the department may amend, expunge or remove any record
from the central registry.

     (d) Any person named as a perpetrator of abuse, neglect,
exploitation, intimidation or abandonment of any vulnerable
adult in any substantiated report maintained in the central
registry shall have the right to have included in the report a
statement concerning the incident giving rise to the report. Any
person seeking to include a statement pursuant to this
subsection shall provide the department with the statement. The
department shall provide notice to any person identified as a
perpetrator of this right to submit a statement in any
substantiated report maintained in the central registry.

     (e) Any person convicted of, or having pled guilty or no
contest to, a crime which includes the abuse, neglect,
exploitation, intimidation or abandonment of any vulnerable
adult shall have that conviction reported to the department by
the court and the report shall be maintained in the central
registry.