Joint Judiciary Committee

Older adults are more at risk from phone and email scams. They're also increasingly at risk of elder financial abuse.

Wyoming's Joint Judiciary Committee considered a bill Tuesday, Sept. 14, that would have made attacking or threatening healthcare workers its own felony, but ultimately killed the bill on a 5-8 vote.

The Joint Judiciary Committee is continuing to work on the transfer of court supervised treatment programs from the Department of Health to the Wyoming Supreme Court.Some hope handing over the substance abuse court program’s oversight to the judicial branch will make treatment courts more effective--since the Supreme Court is directly involved with these programs.

The legislature's Joint Judiciary Committee spent Thursday going through a massive report that proposes a number of reforms within Wyoming's judicial…

An organization that offers non-partisan recommendations on a variety of issues says in the last ten years Wyoming's prison population grew by 12 percent.…

The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Judiciary Committee met Tuesday to discuss ways to increase probation and parole efficiency and effectiveness. This comes…

Members of the Joint Judiciary Committee have agreed to ask permission to study the workload of District Judges in Laramie County. The decision comes…

The Wyoming Legislature is looking at reforming civil asset forfeiture laws.Asset forfeiture is when law enforcement takes and keeps property like cash,…

Judges and attorneys are concerned about how to prosecute possession of edible marijuana products in Wyoming. Under current law, the entire edible, like a…

Wyoming’s Joint Judiciary Legislative Committee has voted to support a bill that would allow for execution by firing squad, but voted down an attempt to…