Wyoming Police Report: How to Get a Crash Report from WYDOT, an Incident Report, or Body Camera (Peace Officer Recording) Footage

Wyoming handles crash reports through direct contact with WYDOT's Highway Safety Office rather than an online storefront, and its public-records law uses one statute, Wyo. Stat. 16-4-203, to cover both general law-enforcement records and body camera footage, which the state calls a "peace officer recording."

Wyoming's approach to a denied bodycam request is also more procedural than most states in this batch, giving a requester an explicit path to petition a district court rather than relying only on the state's general public-records appeal process.

Information last verified on 2026-08-10. This article has not yet been reviewed by a licensed lawyer.

Getting a Copy of a Wyoming Crash Report

Wyoming crash reports are requested from WYDOT's Highway Safety Office, specifically its Office of Data Quality Control and Assurance, in Cheyenne. Contact options include visiting in person at 5300 Bishop Blvd., Cheyenne, WY 82009; calling (307) 777-4450; emailing crash.records@wyo.gov; or mailing a request to WYDOT, Attn: Highway Safety, at the same address, specifying whether the report should come back by paper, email, or fax.

WYDOT's fee schedule, as reflected on the agency's Highway Safety and Highway Patrol pages, has listed a small per-report charge along with an additional credit-card processing fee for card payments. Those specific figures were not directly viewable on a live agency page at publication time, so confirm the current fee schedule with the Highway Safety Office before submitting a request rather than relying on a specific dollar amount here.

Wyoming Statute 31-5-1110 does not make the underlying crash report itself confidential. Its general confidentiality clause for crash reports, subsection (a), was repealed in 2013. What remains confidential under the current statute is narrower: "supplemental information to a crash report filed in connection with the administration of the laws of this state relating to the deposit of security or proof of financial responsibility." A general evidentiary-use restriction also applies under subsection (c). Beyond Wyoming law, the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2721, still restricts what personal information tied to a motor vehicle record an agency may disclose to a requester outside a permitted purpose, regardless of the state-law confidentiality picture.

Getting a Copy of a Wyoming Police Incident Report

A general incident report, covering an arrest or another non-crash police response, is requested from the department or sheriff's office that handled it. Wyoming's Public Records Act sets the governing framework, and Wyo. Stat. 16-4-203(b)(i) is the law-enforcement investigatory-records exemption, covering "records of investigations conducted by, or of intelligence information or security procedures of" a sheriff, county attorney, city attorney, the attorney general, or other agencies with an investigatory or prosecutorial function. As in most states, this exemption is discretionary and applied case by case, and Wyoming's records-act appeal process, described below for bodycam denials, applies to a denied incident-report request as well.

Wyoming Body Camera (Peace Officer Recording) Footage

Wyoming does not use the term "body camera" in its statute. Instead, Wyo. Stat. 16-4-203(d)(xviii) governs a "peace officer recording," defined as audio or video data recorded by a peace officer using a body-worn or vehicle-attached device in the course of official business. It shares the same statute, 16-4-203, as the general law-enforcement exemption above, in a different subsection.

Access splits into a mandatory tier and a discretionary tier. The custodian must allow inspection to law-enforcement personnel and public agencies for official business, or under a court order. The custodian may allow inspection to the person in interest, meaning someone the recording concerns, or where the recording involves an incident of deadly force or serious bodily injury.

Wyoming also gives a denied requester a specific procedural path that many states leave more general. A requester who is denied access can demand a written explanation citing the legal authority for the denial, and can petition the district court for a show-cause order requiring the custodian to justify withholding the recording. For a broader comparison across states, see How to Request Body Cam Footage and Wyoming Body Camera Laws.

Related Resources

Police Reports by State covers the full 50-state picture. See also How to File a Police Report, How to Read a Police Report, Are Police Reports Public?, Wyoming Body Camera Laws, Wyoming Car Accident Laws, Wyoming Public Records Laws, and Wyoming Court Records.

Disclaimer

This article provides general information about how to request police crash reports, incident reports, and body camera footage in Wyoming. It is not legal advice. Fees, portals, and statutes change; confirm current details with WYDOT's Highway Safety Office, the responding agency, or a Wyoming attorney before relying on anything here for a specific situation.

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Last updated: 2026-08-10. Fees and portals reflect their published status as of August 2026.