Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 001 - Governor's Office › Sub-Agency 0002 - Information Practices › Chapter 1 - INFORMATION PRACTICES › Section 1-2 - Definitions

Current through July 13, 2024
a. Access. A way or means of approaching,
				obtaining, using, etc; the ability to obtain the information contained in a
				record.
b. Agency. Any authority,
				bureau, board, commission, committee, or subagency or the state, county,
				municipality or other political subdivision which is created by or pursuant to
				the Wyoming Constitution, statute, or ordinance, other than the state
				legislature and the judiciary.
c.
				Confidential. The status of personal information according to federal
				regulations, state statutes, executive order, or agency or regulations that
				connotes some commitment to withhold from authorized users information obtained
				from an individual or institution.
d. Disclosure. Providing an individual (other
				than those authorized access for routine use) the information contained in a
				record; the release or transfer of information through oral, written, or
				electronic means.
e. File. Any
				aggregation of individual records gathered for a particular purpose and
				organized or indexed as a unit.
f.
				Financial. Fiscal, relating to salary, benefits, profits, debts of and
				individual.
g. Individual. Any man,
				woman, or child, or place of business or organization on whom an agency keeps
				records or maintains information.
h. Interest. A right or claim to something;
				share or participation in something; advantage; welfare; benefit; importance;
				concern.
i. Medical. Of or
				connected with medicine or the practice or study of medicine.
j. Personal Information. All information that
				describes anything about an individual such as identifying characteristics,
				measurements, or test scores; evidences things done by or to an individual,
				such as records of financial transactions, medical treatments, or other
				services; any information that is or can be retrieved from a record or
				record-keeping system by reference to the name, number, or some other
				identifying feature associated with the individual to whom the information
				pertains.
k. Privileged
				Information. Information that one cannot legally be compelled to divulge, as
				that to a lawyer from his client; information given with the stipulation that
				it shall not be divulged further.
l. Psychological. Of the mind;
				mental.
m. Public Interest.
				Something in which the public, the community at large, has some particular
				interest, or some interest by which their legal rights or liabilities are
				affected; interest shared by citizens generally in affairs of local, state or
				national government.
n. Record. Any
				grouping of information about an individual that is maintained in the file of
				an agency or organization that contains a name or identifying number or symbol
				assigned to the individual used to make a decision about the rights, character,
				opportunities, benefits, or liabilities of the individual to whom the record
				pertains.
o. Responsible Authority.
				Any office established by state law as the body responsible for the collection
				and use of any system of record on persons or summary data; the official
				involved, or if more than one state official involved, the official designated
				by the Director of Information Practices.
p. Right To Know. Conferred upon specific
				individuals either by statute or jurisprudence to execute the statutory
				function of the information maintained.
q. Right to Privacy. The individual's right
				to be left alone, to decide for himself how much he will share with others his
				thoughts, his feelings, and the facts of his personal life.
r. Routine Use. The use of a record for the
				purpose for which it was collected according to statutory authority or agency
				regulation.
s. Sociological. Having
				to do with the associated life of an individual; social identifiers relating to
				interaction with society.
t.
				Statistical Record. A record maintained for statistical research or reporting
				purposes only and not used in whole or in part in making any determination
				about an identifiable individual.
u. Subject. An individual or legal entity
				about whom personal information is maintained in an information
				system.
v. System of Record. A
				group of any records under the control of an agency from which information is
				retrieved by the name of the individual or by some identifying number, symbol
				or other identifying particular assigned to the individual.
w. Trade Secrets. A plan or process, tool,
				mechanism, or compound known only to its owner and those of his employees to
				whom it is necessary to confide it; a secret formula or process having
				commercial value.