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act swiftly to pronounce Wyoming's law on data collection of environmental conditions as unconstitutional.

Created by M.T. on May 11, 2015

A new Wyoming law 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. This petition would have the President or Justice Department take immediate action to get this law shut down as it is unconstitutional.

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