Petitioners allowed on curtilage of county buildings

A public hearing was held at the Laramie County Commissioners meeting Tuesday afternoon in Cheyenne. The hearing was to hear comments about allowing petitioners inside county buildings to solicit signatures for a non-commercial nature.

County clerk Debbye Lathrop revised the original draft moving the petitioners from the lobby to the atrium to cause less congestion in the lobby. Commissioner M. Lee Hasenauer said he worked with county attorney Mark Voss on “24 rules” for the petitioners and a form for them to sign to have more oversight of the activities and to know “who was petitioning.”

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