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2011 Wyoming Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (2011)

handle is hein.sag/sagwy0048 and id is 1 raw text is: Off ice of the Attorney General Governor Administration Chief Deputy Attorney General Matthew H. Mead 123 State Capitol Peter K. Michael Cheyenne, Wyoming 82002 Attorney General 307-777-7841 Telephone Gregory A. Phillips 307-777-6869 Fax June 28, 2011 FORMAL OPINION 2011-001 Mr. Kenneth DeCock Johnson County & Prosecuting Attorney 98 South Main Street, Suite A Buffalo, Wyoming 82834 Dear Mr. DeCock: From your letter requesting an Attorney General's opinion on this subject, we learn that in 2003 Steve Kozisek was elected sheriff in Johnson County and that since 2000 his son, Paul Kozisek, has been a deputy sheriff there. You also inform us that Sheriff Kozisek has told you that three levels of supervision separate him from his son (undersheriff, lieutenant, and sergeant). In 1998, the Legislature enacted the Wyoming Ethics and Disclosure Act, codified at WYo. STAT. ANN. §§ 9-13-101 through 109. Among other things, the Act prohibited nepotism: (a) No public official, public member or public employee shall advocate or cause the employment, appointment, promotion, transfer or advancement of a family member to an office or position of the state, a county, municipality or a school district. A public official, public member or public employee shall not supervise or manage a family member who is in an