JACKSON — Residents from across the Equality State urged lawmakers on Thursday to require public records requests to be handled faster and to subject currently private government associations to public record laws.

The Wyoming Legislature’s Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee spent more than four hours weighing the demands for more transparency and the burden a change to the law could place on local governments with few employees.

“I want to suggest that both our Public Meetings Act and our Public Records Act are lacking,” Sandy Ress, a Jackson resident, wrote in a letter to the committee. “They lack specificity that’s required for government officials to know and understand what is and is not permitted.

“They are too skeletal and a lot of meat needs to be

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