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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Wyoming Statutes: Title 14 - Children (anchor)",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The Wyoming Legislative Service Office (wyoleg.gov) publishes the Wyoming Statutes by title; Title 14 - Children holds children, including the age verification article for covered platforms at 14-3-501 to 14-3-504. The compiled title text is the PDF at wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title14.pdf, which opens with the heading 'TITLE 14 - CHILDREN'.",
      "body": "The Wyoming Legislative Service Office (wyoleg.gov) publishes the Wyoming Statutes by title; Title 14 - Children holds children, including the age verification article for covered platforms at 14-3-501 to 14-3-504. The compiled title text is the PDF at wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title14.pdf, which opens with the heading 'TITLE 14 - CHILDREN'.\n\nWhat Wyoming Legislative Service Office (Wyoming Statutes on wyoleg.gov) actually says:\n\n“TITLE 14 - CHILDREN CHAPTER 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS”\n\nNote: Anchor record: the legislature's own statute site. The title is published there as a PDF; the HTML page wyoleg.gov/stateStatutes/StatutesDownload is a script-rendered shell with no statute text.",
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      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-501: 'Covered platform' definition",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-501(a)(iii): a 'covered platform' is an entity that operates a website that, in the regular course of business, creates, hosts or makes available content that is material harmful to minors, provided by the entity, a user or another information content provider, for purposes of making a profit; it is covered whether or not it earns a profit and whether or not such content is its sole or principal business.",
      "body": "W.S. 14-3-501(a)(iii): a 'covered platform' is an entity that operates a website that, in the regular course of business, creates, hosts or makes available content that is material harmful to minors, provided by the entity, a user or another information content provider, for purposes of making a profit; it is covered whether or not it earns a profit and whether or not such content is its sole or principal business.\n\nWhat Wyoming Legislative Service Office (Wyoming Statutes on wyoleg.gov) actually says:\n\n“\"Covered platform\" means an entity that operates a website that, in the regular course of business, creates, hosts or makes available content that is material harmful to minors that is provided by the entity, a user or other information content provider for purposes of making a profit. \"Covered platform\" includes an entity described in this paragraph regardless of whether the entity: (A) Earns a profit on the activities described in this paragraph; or (B) Creates, hosts, or makes available content that is material harmful to minors as the sole source of income or principal business of the entity.”\n\nNote: Whether an individual creator who sells their own content through someone else's platform is a covered platform: the definition binds an 'entity that operates a website'; a creator selling on a third party's site does not operate the website, but a creator who runs their own site that makes such content available falls within the words 'creates, hosts or makes available'. The statute does not say; no court decision was read.",
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      "evidence_quote": "\"Covered platform\" means an entity that operates a website that, in the regular course of business, creates, hosts or makes available content that is material harmful to minors that is provided by the entity, a user or other information content provider for purposes of making a profit. \"Covered platform\" includes an entity described in this paragraph regardless of whether the entity: (A) Earns a profit on the activities described in this paragraph; or (B) Creates, hosts, or makes available content that is material harmful to minors as the sole source of income or principal business of the entity.",
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      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-501: 'Material harmful to minors' definition",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-501(a)(vi): 'material harmful to minors' means any picture, image, graphic image file, film, videotape or other visual depiction that is obscene or is child pornography.",
      "body": "W.S. 14-3-501(a)(vi): 'material harmful to minors' means any picture, image, graphic image file, film, videotape or other visual depiction that is obscene or is child pornography.\n\nWhat Wyoming Legislative Service Office (Wyoming Statutes on wyoleg.gov) actually says:\n\n“\"Material harmful to minors\" means any picture, image, graphic image file, film, videotape or other visual depiction that is obscene or is child pornography;”\n\nNote: The test is the obscenity definition at 6-4-301(a)(iii) (prurient interest, patently offensive, no serious value), applied to visual depictions; it is not a 'sexually explicit' test.",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-501: Accepted age verification methods",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-501(a)(ix): 'reasonable age verification measures' include a Wyoming driver's licence or ID card, a US passport, military card, tribal ID, a driver's licence or ID from any state, a credit or debit card that requires the owner to be 18 or older, or any other means that reliably and accurately can determine whether a user is a minor.",
      "body": "W.S. 14-3-501(a)(ix): 'reasonable age verification measures' include a Wyoming driver's licence or ID card, a US passport, military card, tribal ID, a driver's licence or ID from any state, a credit or debit card that requires the owner to be 18 or older, or any other means that reliably and accurately can determine whether a user is a minor.\n\nWhat Wyoming Legislative Service Office (Wyoming Statutes on wyoleg.gov) actually says:\n\n“\"Reasonable age verification measures\" include: (A) A Wyoming driver's license as defined by W.S. 31-7-102(a)(xxv); (B) A Wyoming identification card issued under W.S. 31-8-101; (C) A valid United States passport; (D) A United States military card; (E) A tribal identification card; (F) A driver's license or identification card issued by any state or outlying possession of the United States; (G) A credit card, except for cards that do not require the person in ownership of the credit card account to be eighteen (18) years of age or older; (H) A debit card, except for cards that do not require the person in ownership of the debit card account to be eighteen (18) years of age or older; (J) Any other means or method that reliably and accurately can determine whether a user of a covered platform is a minor.”",
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      "evidence_quote": "\"Reasonable age verification measures\" include: (A) A Wyoming driver's license as defined by W.S. 31-7-102(a)(xxv); (B) A Wyoming identification card issued under W.S. 31-8-101; (C) A valid United States passport; (D) A United States military card; (E) A tribal identification card; (F) A driver's license or identification card issued by any state or outlying possession of the United States; (G) A credit card, except for cards that do not require the person in ownership of the credit card account to be eighteen (18) years of age or older; (H) A debit card, except for cards that do not require the person in ownership of the debit card account to be eighteen (18) years of age or older; (J) Any other means or method that reliably and accurately can determine whether a user of a covered platform is a minor.",
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      "subject": "W.S. 14-3-501",
      "topic": "Accepted age verification methods",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-502: Duty to verify age and delete identifying information",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-502: a covered platform shall perform reasonable age verification to verify the age of all persons accessing or attempting to access the material and shall prevent access by minors; a platform or third party that verifies shall not retain any identifying information of the person after access has been granted.",
      "body": "W.S. 14-3-502: a covered platform shall perform reasonable age verification to verify the age of all persons accessing or attempting to access the material and shall prevent access by minors; a platform or third party that verifies shall not retain any identifying information of the person after access has been granted.\n\nWhat Wyoming Legislative Service Office (Wyoming Statutes on wyoleg.gov) actually says:\n\n“any covered platform shall perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of all persons accessing or attempting to access the material and shall prevent access by minors to the material. (b) Any covered platform or third party that performs the required age verification shall not retain any identifying information of the person after access has been granted to the material.”\n\nNote: The statute states no data-retention period: the duty is not to retain identifying information after access is granted.",
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      "evidence_quote": "any covered platform shall perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of all persons accessing or attempting to access the material and shall prevent access by minors to the material. (b) Any covered platform or third party that performs the required age verification shall not retain any identifying information of the person after access has been granted to the material.",
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      "subject": "W.S. 14-3-502",
      "topic": "Duty to verify age and delete identifying information",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-503: Remedy: $5,000 per failure, private civil action",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-503: a parent or guardian of an aggrieved minor may sue the covered platform; a successful plaintiff recovers damages, costs and reasonable attorney fees plus $5,000 for each instance the platform failed to perform age verification; any person may sue a platform that knowingly retained identifying information.",
      "body": "W.S. 14-3-503: a parent or guardian of an aggrieved minor may sue the covered platform; a successful plaintiff recovers damages, costs and reasonable attorney fees plus $5,000 for each instance the platform failed to perform age verification; any person may sue a platform that knowingly retained identifying information.\n\nWhat Wyoming Legislative Service Office (Wyoming Statutes on wyoleg.gov) actually says:\n\n“A plaintiff who brings a successful cause of action under subsection (a) of this section shall, in addition to the damages specified in subsection (c) of this section, receive damages in an amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) for each instance that the covered platform failed to perform reasonable age verification methods to restrict a minor's access to material harmful to minors. For purposes of this subsection, each failure to perform age verification shall constitute a separate violation.”",
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      "source_publisher": "Wyoming Legislative Service Office (Wyoming Statutes on wyoleg.gov)",
      "evidence_quote": "A plaintiff who brings a successful cause of action under subsection (a) of this section shall, in addition to the damages specified in subsection (c) of this section, receive damages in an amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) for each instance that the covered platform failed to perform reasonable age verification methods to restrict a minor's access to material harmful to minors. For purposes of this subsection, each failure to perform age verification shall constitute a separate violation.",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-503: Enforcement is exclusively by private civil action",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-503(h): violations of 14-3-502 are enforced exclusively through the civil actions in the section, and no direct or indirect enforcement shall be taken or threatened by the state or any political subdivision against any person except as provided there.",
      "body": "W.S. 14-3-503(h): violations of 14-3-502 are enforced exclusively through the civil actions in the section, and no direct or indirect enforcement shall be taken or threatened by the state or any political subdivision against any person except as provided there.\n\nWhat Wyoming Legislative Service Office (Wyoming Statutes on wyoleg.gov) actually says:\n\n“Violations of W.S. 14-3-502 shall be enforced exclusively through the civil actions provided in this section; (ii) No direct or indirect enforcement of this article shall be taken or threatened by the state or any other political subdivision of the state against any person in any manner whatsoever except as provided in this section.”\n\nNote: There is therefore no attorney general enforcement route, no criminal penalty and no fine range in the article.",
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      "evidence_quote": "Violations of W.S. 14-3-502 shall be enforced exclusively through the civil actions provided in this section; (ii) No direct or indirect enforcement of this article shall be taken or threatened by the state or any other political subdivision of the state against any person in any manner whatsoever except as provided in this section.",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-504: Scope: Wyoming minors only, exemptions",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-504: the article applies only to minors who are permanent residents of Wyoming, have resided in Wyoming for more than one year, or have been present in Wyoming for at least 31 consecutive days; it does not apply to internet service providers, general purpose search engines or cloud service providers.",
      "body": "W.S. 14-3-504: the article applies only to minors who are permanent residents of Wyoming, have resided in Wyoming for more than one year, or have been present in Wyoming for at least 31 consecutive days; it does not apply to internet service providers, general purpose search engines or cloud service providers.\n\nWhat Wyoming Legislative Service Office (Wyoming Statutes on wyoleg.gov) actually says:\n\n“This article shall apply only to minors who: (i) Are permanent residents of Wyoming; (ii) Have resided in Wyoming for more than one (1) year; or (iii) Have been sojourning or present in Wyoming for not less than thirty-one (31) consecutive days. (b) This article shall not: (i) Apply to any internet service provider, any affiliate or subsidiary of an internet service provider, any general purpose search engine or cloud service provider;”",
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      "evidence_quote": "This article shall apply only to minors who: (i) Are permanent residents of Wyoming; (ii) Have resided in Wyoming for more than one (1) year; or (iii) Have been sojourning or present in Wyoming for not less than thirty-one (31) consecutive days. (b) This article shall not: (i) Apply to any internet service provider, any affiliate or subsidiary of an internet service provider, any general purpose search engine or cloud service provider;",
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      "subject": "W.S. 14-3-504",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] W.S. 14-3-501 to 14-3-504: Effective date, court orders and individual-creator duty: not stated in the statute text",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] The compiled statute text of W.S. 14-3-501 to 14-3-504 states no effective date and no duty on an individual who sells content through another party's platform; the duties run to 'covered platforms' (entities that operate a website). No court order enjoining the article was read.",
      "body": "The compiled statute text of W.S. 14-3-501 to 14-3-504 states no effective date and no duty on an individual who sells content through another party's platform; the duties run to 'covered platforms' (entities that operate a website). No court order enjoining the article was read.\n\nWhat Wyoming Legislative Service Office (Wyoming Statutes on wyoleg.gov) actually says:\n\n“This article shall apply only to minors who: (i) Are permanent residents of Wyoming; (ii) Have resided in Wyoming for more than one (1) year; or (iii) Have been sojourning or present in Wyoming for not less than thirty-one (31) consecutive days. (b) This article shall not: (i) Apply to any internet service provider, any affiliate or subsidiary of an internet service provider, any general purpose search engine or cloud service provider;”\n\nNote: ABSENCE RECORD (inferred from the sections read, not from operative text). Index searched: Wyoming Statutes Title 14, Chapter 3, Article 5 in the wyoleg.gov title 14 PDF (the compiled text carries no session-law effective date), and all other titles searched for 'age verification' on 2026-10-18 (only Title 14 and an unrelated kratom sales line in Title 35).",
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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Wyoming: statutory code index",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Wyoming's statutes are published on the Legislative Service Office website at wyoleg.gov under a state statutes page.",
      "body": "Wyoming's statutes are published on the Legislative Service Office website at wyoleg.gov under a state statutes page.\n\nWhat Wyoming Legislative Service Office actually says:\n\n“Legislative Service Office”\n\nNote: Anchor record. Direct access to the official Wyoming statute index page was attempted via the Legislative Service Office domain.",
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      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Wyoming HB 43: age-verification statute",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Wyoming enacted House Bill 43 in 2025 (Chapter 139), which mandates age verification for platforms hosting material harmful to minors, effective July 1, 2025.",
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