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a registerable offense on or after January 1, 1985, registering within three business days of arriving in the state; a repealed Wyoming statute or a federal or out of state conviction goes to a legal review after registration to find the Wyoming equivalent.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 sheriff verifying the address in person once a year, every six months or every three months by the offense category in section 7-19-302, and a district court petition for relief after ten years in the yearly category or 25 years in the six month category on a clean record.
- Rules and fees: no adult registrant on school premises when children are present, loitering within 1,000 feet of school grounds, or living within 1,000 feet of a school or, since July 1, 2026, a child care facility, subject to the statutory exceptions; a state registration fee of up to $120 plus a 25 percent county fee and up to $25 per update; a felony for failing to register, up to five years and $1,000 on a first offense and up to ten years on a repeat.
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, Wyoming Statutes Title 7, chapter 19, article 3, the Sex Offender Registration Act, sections 7-19-301 to 7-19-309, as published by the Legislative Service Office, Wyoming Statutes section 6-2-320 on access to school and child care facilities by adult sex offenders, 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, the verification schedule and the petition
Every offender in Wyoming registers for life, the division's questions page states, and section 7-19-304 of the act says the same in statutory form: the duty begins on the date of sentencing and continues for the duration of the offender's life. What changes from one registrant to the next is the verification category in section 7-19-302. An offender convicted of an offense in subsection (g), the lowest group, which includes the listed subsections of third degree sexual abuse of a minor under section 6-2-316 and several federal offenses, reports in person to the sheriff of the county of residence once a year to verify the address and is photographed at that visit; an offender in subsection (h), a middle group that includes third degree sexual assault of a victim of 14 or older under section 6-2-304, the listed child exploitation offenses under section 6-4-303 and the federal offense of sexual exploitation of a child, together with any (g) offense committed after an earlier (g) conviction, reports every six months after the initial release or the start of parole; and an offender in subsection (j), the gravest group, which covers first and second degree sexual assault, third degree sexual assault of a victim under 14, first and second degree sexual abuse of a minor, kidnapping of a minor, incest, the listed human trafficking offenses and any (h) offense committed after an earlier conviction, reports every three months, the sheriff photographing an (h) or (j) offender whenever the appearance has changed and at least once a year and sending each confirmation to the division within three working days.
When the division cannot identify the crime of conviction or its Wyoming equivalent it registers the person as a (j) offender until verifiable documentation shows otherwise, and a transient who reports to the sheriff every week is treated as compliant with the verification rule. The petition under section 7-19-304 is the one road off the registry: an offender in the (g) category, or a juvenile adjudicated delinquent for a (j) offense, who has been registered for at least ten years not counting time confined or unregistered may petition the district court of the district of registration, and an offender in the (h) category may do so after 25 years, each proving a clean record over that time, meaning no conviction of an offense punishable by more than a year, no sex offense, every period of supervised release, probation and parole completed and every court or agent ordered treatment completed; the petition is served on the prosecuting attorney, who has 30 days to respond, and an unserved petition cannot be granted.
An offender in the (j) category as an adult has no petition at all. Section 7-19-302(r) attaches the costs: a state registration fee of up to $120 at the initial registration with a county fee of 25 percent of it, and a state reporting fee of up to $25 with the same 25 percent county fee each time the offender reports a change of address, employment or school, waived for anyone in custody and for an indigent offender who applies under penalty of perjury with a year's financial history, and willfully failing to pay is a misdemeanor carrying up to $750 and six months.
What the public may see, who is told, and the alerts
The amount of information the public website carries is controlled by statute, specifically section 7-19-303(c)(iii), which has the division publish through the internet the offender's name and aliases, physical address, date and place of birth, date and place of conviction, the crime, a photograph, the race, sex, height, weight and eye and hair color, the history of every conviction that brought the registration duty, the plate and description of any vehicle owned or operated, the physical address of any employer and the address of any Wyoming school attended, while withholding internet identifiers, telephone numbers and juvenile adjudications unless disclosure is authorized under section 7-19-309, 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.
The victim's identity is never released without the victim's own authorization, and a public official who willfully discloses registration or victim information to anyone not entitled to it commits a misdemeanor carrying up to six months and $750. For an offender in the six month or three month category the sheriff also delivers notice of the registration, by mail, in person or any other reliable means, to residential neighbors within at least 750 feet of the residence and to community organizations including schools and religious and youth organizations, the division notifies every child care facility within at least 1,000 feet, and a college or school tells its campus community that information about a registrant employed or enrolled there can be had from the campus police; the legislature directed the division to post everyone by conviction record without any assessment of individual risk, and the site carries the required disclaimer that no determination has been made that anyone listed is currently dangerous.
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; a victim, or a minor victim's parent or guardian, may ask the division in writing to be told of every change of the offender's address.
The school and child care rules, and the penalties
Section 6-2-320 bars a registrant of 18 or older from being on the premises of any school building or school grounds, or other property a school owns or leases, when the person has reason to believe children under 18 are present for a school activity or within 30 minutes before or after one; from knowingly loitering on a public way within 1,000 feet of school grounds in those same hours; from riding in any vehicle a school owns or leases to carry students when children are aboard; from residing within 1,000 feet of the property on which a school is located, measured from the nearest point of the exterior wall of the dwelling to the school's property line, unless the residence was established before July 1, 2010; and, in the rule the 2026 legislature added, from residing within 1,000 feet of a child care facility measured the same way, unless the residence was established before July 1, 2026 or before the facility opened there.
The presence and loitering rules give way for a student in attendance, a parent or guardian attending an academic conference or extracurricular event with the principal's written permission, a resident of a licensed incarceration, health or convalescent facility within the zone, a parent dropping off or picking up a child, a delivery during school hours, voting, collecting mail at a post office on school grounds, written permission from the principal, and a stay at a homeless shelter or recovery facility within the zone that the sheriff or police chief has approved for sex offenders; a violation is a misdemeanor carrying up to six months, $750 or both, and the division asks anyone who believes a registrant is living illegally near a school to contact the local law enforcement agency.
Under section 7-19-307 a failure to register, to update any information or to pay a fee on time is a per se violation, an arrest or arraignment on the charge is itself notice of the duty, and a person who knowingly fails to register commits a felony punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, imprisonment of up to five years or both, with a second knowing failure a felony carrying a $1,000 fine and up to ten years; suspected violations go to the local police or to the sheriff's office where the offender is registered, and section 7-19-308 makes harboring a sex offender its own offense.
Moving, travel and correcting the record
An offender who changes residence within a county tells the sheriff in person within three working days of establishing the new residence, one moving to a new county tells the new sheriff and the old one in person within the same three working days, and one who has no new residence within three working days of leaving the old one, or who becomes transient, reports to the sheriff of the county of registration every week until settled; every change of employment or school enrollment, and every other change in the registered information, is reported in person within three working days as well.
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. Travel outside the United States takes notice to the sheriff of every county of registration at least 21 days ahead with the countries, dates, purpose, means of travel, citizenship and passport details, which the sheriff forwards to the division within three working days.
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, yearly, every six months or every three months, follows the offense category, which the sheriff of the county can confirm, and the same category decides whether the neighbors within 750 feet were told and whether a petition can ever be filed.
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, the photographs and the fee receipts, the division in Cheyenne holds the state database and the national entry, and the district court of the county of registration 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.