SWEETWATER COUNTY — Sweetwater County Community Resiliency Task Force reports the following updates for the afternoon of Wednesday, March 18, 2020:
New dedicated public information resources
Sweetwater311 is a public information website dedicated to public health and safety updates as they relate to the coronavirus disease in Sweetwater County. This website is now active and available online at https://www.sweetwater311.org. The task force intends to post morning and afternoon briefings, along with related media releases and community updates, to this dedicated website regularly throughout each day.
Sweetwater Combined Communications Center is in the process of activating a 311 local government information telephone hotline. 311 will serve as a non-emergency telephone number county residents can call to receive pre-recorded morning and afternoon community briefings about the latest local public health and safety updates as they relate to the coronavirus disease in Sweetwater County. The telephone hotline serves as redundancy for the Sweetwater311 website and as an alternative for those who do not have internet access. The 311 telephone hotline is expected to be operational very soon, and we will update everyone with further details as soon as it is active and available.
Wyoming Supreme Court issues COVID-19 emergency order
Today, Michael K. Davis, Chief Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, issued an Emergency Order implementing measures to protect the health of the public and court personnel throughout Wyoming, while still permitting essential functions to proceed in a timely manner.
The Order advises all District and Circuit Courts to suspend in-person proceedings, except in certain specified circumstances where required by law and the constitution. Judges are encouraged to use video or telephone conferencing to the extent possible, all civil trials should be rescheduled, and reasonable attempts should be made to reschedule all criminal trials, “subject to the requirement that defendants be provided speedy trials as required by law.”
“We are fortunate that our branch has invested in video technology and upgraded our hardware in recent years so that we can perform many judicial functions remotely,” Chief Justice Davis said. He also encouraged individual judges to issue orders specific to their needs as this health situation evolves. More information is available here: https://www.courts.state.wy.us/coronavirus-covid-19-updates/.
Rock Springs Police Department
Rock Springs Police Department announced today that it will no longer conduct VIN inspections until April 3, 2020. This date may be reevaluated as conditions change.
