The poll results are in. And the people’s voice is loud and clear, with over 1,500 Wyomingites weighing in*.
The message to lawmakers couldn’t be more obvious. 99% of Wyoming thinks it is a violation of the Wyoming and US Constitution that the State government is censoring communications between voters and elected officials.
What happened? We reported that in early January, it became known that constituent emails were being blocked through the State’s email quarantine system. Whether wittingly or unwittingly, the Wyoming Legislative Services Office (LSO) has been censoring communications with legislators. This is a critical threat to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and Section 20 of the Declaration of Rights in the Wyoming Constitution.
Lawmakers in Cheyenne had a chance to fix this problem by passing HB 338 during the 2025 legislative session. The bill simply required that:
- The LSO publish a list of all domain names and addresses that are being quarantined or prevented from delivering email to legislators in any way.
- Any person whose email communications to legislators that had been quarantined would be able to contact the LSO to request that their emails be removed from quarantine and delivered to legislators.
- The LSO would remove requested domain names or addresses from quarantine unless the release from quarantine or allowed delivery posed an actual security threat to the information technology systems of the state of Wyoming.
But, in a blow to free speech and a degradation of trust in the Wyoming political system, the bill was killed on February 3rd, 2025, before it was even assigned to a legislative committee for public input.
Over 100 days have passed, and still, the people of Wyoming have no assurances from Cheyenne that their free speech rights will be restored. How much longer will lawmakers fail to act?
Since the legislative session is over, Wyomingites must now rely on the members of the LSO Management Council to do the right thing. The Management Council is a select committee of lawmakers that oversees all aspects of the LSO. During any of their regular meetings, they can enact a simple policy change to LSO protocols. One that would temporarily protect Wyoming voters with the same reasonable and effective safeguards as HB338 would have provided permanently.
Will the following lawmakers commit to restoring the trust and respect of the people? Wyoming voters are watching.
Representative Chip Neiman (Chairman)
Senator Bo Biteman (Vice Chair)
Members:
Senator Barry Crago
Senator Mike Gierau
Representative John Bear
Representative Jeremey Haroldson
Senator Tara Nethercott
Senator Tim Salazar
Representative Scott Heiner
Representative Mike Yin
*Results based on a randomized Honor Wyoming poll of 1,507 Wyoming respondents on Facebook from 03/28/2025 through 05/09/2025