Wyoming
Entries whose effect landed somewhere in Wyoming (WY) — a city, a county, a campus, a detention facility — whichever government acted. Federal conduct inside Wyoming counts here.
This is not the same set as Wyoming's jurisdiction page, which records the 12 entries where Wyoming's own government was the acting authority, wherever those events happened. The two overlap and neither contains the other: place and power are separate facts, and statewide acts appear there and not here.
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DOJ election observers exceeded legal scope, demanded records, sought voter interviews at Laramie County, Wyoming polls, clerk and governor say
During Wyoming's August 18, 2026 primary election, two U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division attorneys deployed to Laramie County questioned poll administrators about matters Clerk Debra Lee said were outside the scope of federal voting rights law, requested poll-worker training materials and equipment-acquisition records, sought to examine vote tabulators, and attempted to interview voters — a request Lee denied. Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon subsequently asked Attorney General Ryan Schelhaas to examine whether the observers exceeded the authority Congress granted them.
Laramie County Sheriff Kozak signed ICE 287(g) agreements without county commission approval or public notice
Laramie County Sheriff Brian Kozak signed three Section 287(g) agreements deputizing his office for federal immigration enforcement -- the first taking effect May 20, 2025, the other two about a month later -- without submitting the decision to the Laramie County Board of County Commissioners or following Wyoming's public rulemaking process. The sheriff's office went on to spend an estimated $75,000 on the resulting program between September 2025 and January 2026 without written commission authorization, and 287(g)-certified deputies later joined ICE and the Wyoming Highway Patrol in operations such as a December 22, 2025 stop-and-check campaign on Wyoming Highway 214. The ACLU of Wyoming and three local plaintiffs sued Kozak in May 2026, arguing he lacked authority to bind the county without the commissioners' approval.