Wyoming has not yet acted to create an opt-out exception to the federal law. State departments of motor vehicles currently provide important information that the public has a right to know. News organizations have for instance, by searching through these public records, discovered that school bus drivers in some locales sometimes included men convicted of armed robbery and murder. A few were even convicted of felony drug possession. Certainly, such information is in the public interest.
Police departments can only do so much.
They are overwhelmed with their work on the streets. Reporters for the Minnesota Star-Tribune, according to an article Bill Loving wrote for a law journal recently, found at least 41 pilots who had lost their drivers licenses but were never reported to the Federal Aviation Administration. DMV records are public records. They are paid for by the public. They belong in the public domain.