Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Serving the Platte Valley since 1888
Sorted by date Results 1 - 5 of 5
CHEYENNE — As the 2024-25 school year began, teachers across Laramie County School District 1 had a new lesson to add to their first day agenda: How to comply with the district’s new parental rights policy. Specifically, teachers had to explain to students the new rule that requires teachers to report students’ preferred names to their parents. School districts across the state were mandated by the Wyoming Legislature to pass a parental rights policy outlining the situations in which the schools are required to notify parents about chang...
CHEYENNE — More than a dozen Wyoming schools had received threats of either an active shooter or a bomb on campus as of Monday afternoon, according to the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation. Part of a national trend, Wyoming is not unique at this moment, and these threats appear to be “spilling over” from other states, DCI’s Ryan Cox told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Based on current information, it appears that threats have been made in other states in the past month. Schools and local police departments are responding to threats...
CHEYENNE — As the University of Wyoming considers allowing conceal carry on campus, students, faculty and other community stakeholders took the opportunity to express their concerns during Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting. Current campus regulations prevent dangerous weapons from being carried in university facilities. According to the university, exemptions can be granted on a case-by-case basis by the UW Police Department. The university sought input on potential changes to campus firearm policies following Gov. Mark Gordon’s direc...
CHEYENNE — Detainment time for adjudicated undocumented inmates was increased from two hours to 48 hours by Laramie County Sheriff Brian Kozak. The change will bring detainment times in line with a nationally accepted standard and has been a long-term goal of Kozak’s since he was elected sheriff. Federal law states that state and local law enforcement authorities may only hold persons on immigration detainers for 48 hours after the completion of their jail time. “I know that some criminal aliens were released into our community, into Cheye...
CHEYENNE — Defendants in the public records lawsuit led by former lawyers George Powers of Cheyenne and Rodger McDaniel of Laramie have been found to have “knowingly or intentionally” violated the Wyoming Public Records Act. The lawsuit, filed against the Wyoming Department of Education, Communications Director Linda Finnerty and former State Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Schroeder, was related to records detailing the origin of funds for a press conference titled “Stop the Sexualization of Our Children.” The event, organized...