The Wyoming Sex Offender Registry is maintained by the Sexual Offender Registration unit of the Division of Criminal Investigation, and the division describes a chain that begins locally: the sheriff's office in each county is responsible for tracking the sex offenders required to register, that information goes electronically to the division, which reviews it for accuracy and enters it into the state registry database and into the National Crime Information Center the FBI operates, so that agencies across the country can see registered offender information from every state, and the public website is populated from the state database, which the division calls a real time system. Alongside the search the division publishes the Wyoming Sex Offender Act, the registration fees and an indigent request form, address verification information, the frequently asked questions, the national registration and notification material and the public website, the OffenderWatch family safety app, a directory of sheriff's offices and the Wyoming sex offender annual reports for every year from 2018 through 2025. The unit answers at (307) 777-7181 and wysors@wyo.gov.
Two features of the Wyoming system stand out. The first is the term, which the registry's questions page states in four words: all offenders in Wyoming register for life. The second is how little discretion anyone has over the record, since the information released to the public is controlled by statute, conviction information is verified against court documents, registered juveniles are barred by statute from appearing on the public website, and no offender is removed from the registry without a court order, the registry itself having no part in that process. The sheriff's office that registers offenders in each county is on the Wyoming county pages.
- Search: the division's public website by last name, address, city, county, ZIP code or a radius map from an address, drawn in real time from the state database; registered juveniles are never displayed.
- Who registers: anyone convicted in Wyoming of a registerable offense on or after January 1, 1985, registering within three business days of arriving in the state; a repealed Wyoming statute or a federal or out of state conviction goes to a legal review after registration to find the Wyoming equivalent.
- Duration: life, for every offender in Wyoming, with the frequency of address verification set by the registration category in the statute and the sheriff telling the offender which schedule applies.
- Rules: no adult registrant on school grounds or living within 1,000 feet of a school, subject to the statutory exceptions, and a felony for failing to register, punishable on a first offense by up to five years, a fine of up to $1,000, or both.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Wyoming's own systems: the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation sex offender registry page, the division's sex offender registry frequently asked questions, the division's criminal justice information services pages, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
Who registers, and the legal review
Any person convicted in Wyoming of a registerable sex offense on or after January 1, 1985 must register in Wyoming, and must do so within three business days of arriving in the state. The registerable Wyoming statutes are listed in section 7-19-302(g), (h) and (j) of the Wyoming Statutes, and where a conviction is not on those lists, because it was under a Wyoming statute since repealed or because it came from a federal court or another state, a legal review is conducted after the offender has registered to determine the Wyoming equivalent statute and the resulting duty.
The division adds a point that catches people out: Wyoming does not consider the offender's duty to register in another state, so the question is always what the Wyoming equivalent would be, not what the other jurisdiction decided. A person who believes someone has a duty to register but is missing from the public website is asked to tell the local law enforcement agency or the registry, with the name, the date of birth or age, the address where the person may be, the crime and where and when the conviction happened, since not every sex offender has to register in Wyoming and some registered earlier and are no longer required to register under the act.
Lifetime registration, and the verification schedule
Every offender in Wyoming registers for life. What changes from one registrant to the next is the frequency of address verification, which is fixed by the registration category in section 7-19-302(g), (h) and (j) and announced to the offender by the sheriff's office of the county of registration, with the division publishing its address verification information alongside the act itself. The same categories matter at the other end of the process: under section 7-19-304 an offender in the g or h category may petition the district court in the county of residence for relief, provided the conditions in that section are met, while the registry plays no part and no one comes off the list without a court order.
What the public may see, and the alerts
The amount of information the public website carries is controlled by statute, specifically section 7-19-303(c)(iii), and the division will not release more than the site displays, so anyone who wants the detail of an offense is sent to the court of conviction or the arresting agency. Registered juveniles are prohibited by statute from being displayed on the public website, and information about one comes from the sheriff's office where the juvenile is registered.
For people who want to be told rather than to keep checking, the website carries two subscription features: a Register to Track this Offender link on an individual offender's page, and a Receive Email Alerts option on the search screen for offenders living near a chosen address. Each subscription needs a name and a working email address, and a subscriber may set up as many as wanted, one at a time.
The 1,000 foot school rule and the penalty
Section 6-2-320(a) prohibits an adult registered sex offender from being on school grounds or living within 1,000 feet of a school, with some exceptions written into the statute itself, and the division asks anyone who believes a registrant is living illegally near an educational facility to contact the local law enforcement agency. Under section 7-19-307(c) of the Wyoming Sex Offender Registration Act, an offender who does not comply with the registration requirements can be convicted of failure to register, a felony on the first offense punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, imprisonment of up to five years, or both; suspected violations of the duty to register go to the local police or to the sheriff's office where the offender is registered.
Moving away, and correcting the record
An offender leaving Wyoming must deregister in person with the sheriff's office where the registration is held and give the address of the destination; the registry then notifies the receiving state of the intent to relocate, and the offender has three business days to report there before becoming non compliant and subject to arrest. An error on the website is reported to the registering sheriff's office, meaning the county where the offender lives, or to the registry at wysors@wyo.gov, and the division notes that conviction information is verified against court documents.
Reading a Wyoming result
A record on the division's site is an adult registrant for life, carrying only the information section 7-19-303(c)(iii) allows, drawn in real time from the state database that the county sheriffs feed; the verification rhythm behind it depends on a statutory category the site does not advertise, which the sheriff of the county can confirm. A missing name may be a registered juvenile, who may never be displayed, a person whose conviction never required Wyoming registration, a former registrant released by a district court order, or an offender who has just deregistered to move away.
The sheriff holds the registration and the verification schedule, the division in Cheyenne holds the state database and the national entry, and the district court of the county of residence is the only road off the registry.
Questions about the Wyoming sex offender registry
Related Wyoming records
Wyoming's other public records guides on this site are the Wyoming arrest records guide for what a booking makes public, the Wyoming inmate search guide for the Department of Corrections and the county jails, the Wyoming background check guide for the division's criminal records unit, and the Wyoming county pages for every sheriff and police department.