A press release dated 30, October, 2018, from Western Watersheds Project (click HERE to donate to WWP. Any amount helps.)....
After "following" the link below, scroll down to The Wildlife News. It's under that heading where there are links to various articles about the law.
https://www.westernwatersheds.org/2018/10/federal-court-strikes-down-wyoming-data-trespass-laws-as-unconstitutional/
In an effort to discourage environmentalists from gathering photographic/video documentation of environmental law-breaking, the Wyoming legislature passed a law creating penalties, including jailtime, for "data trespass." On October 29, 2018, Judge Scott W. Skavdahl, presiding in the District Court (Federal) in Cheyenne, Wyoming, struck down and, permanently established, the unconstitutionality of the "data trespass" law.
(Case filing)
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