If you discover an environmental disaster in Wyoming-You MUST keep it to yourself.

[kpete]

Forbidden Data
Wyoming just criminalized citizen science.
By Justin Pidot

The new law is of breathtaking scope. It makes it a crime to “collect resource data” from any “open land,” meaning any land outside of a city or town, whether it’s federal, state, or privately owned. The statute defines the word collect as any method to “preserve information in any form,” including taking a “photograph” so long as the person gathering that information intends to submit it to a federal or state agency. In other words, if you discover an environmental disaster in Wyoming, even one that poses an imminent threat to public health, you’re obliged, according to this law, to keep it to yourself.

more:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/05/wyoming_law_against_data_collection_protecting_ranchers_by_ignoring_the.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_fb_top
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/05/13/3657795/wyoming-pollution-photography-jail-time/

[safeinOhio]

1. When will we start calling this what it is.

The take over of the country by neofascism. Laws to protect the rich and powerful at the expense of the common man.

[MohRokTah]

2. It will NEVER stand up to constitutional scrutiny.

#1 A state cannot regulate federal lands.

#2 A clear violation of the First Amendment.

[CanonRay]

3. Another idiot state legislature acts out

this has all the legal force of the fourth graders voting for world peace, except with worse intent.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

4. From the comments... Dan Lee:

"What a world, the polluters remain untouched, while the person that exposes it becomes a criminal. That is positively Orwellian!"