Wyoming Missing Children

In Wyoming a missing child is reported to the city police, the county sheriff or, on the Wind River Reservation, the tribal police or the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation in the Attorney General's office coordinates the case and keeps the state's missing persons clearinghouse, with the Wyoming Highway Patrol handling the AMBER Alert broadcast. The same holds in Wyoming: the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children can post the case on its national site as well, but only after the police enter it in the FBI's database and the family or the agency gives permission. There is no waiting period.

Wyoming is the least populated state, so alerts almost always cover the whole state and the neighboring states at once, and the state's Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Task Force, created in 2019, works on the gap between tribal, federal and state reporting on the Wind River Reservation.

Official sources on this page were checked on September 25, 2026.

• Wyoming Missing Child SearchOnline Search
• Wyoming Missing Children Clearinghouse
• National Center for Missing and Exploited ChildrenNational Center for Missing Children
• Wyoming Child Amber AlertWyoming Amber Alert Program
• Wyoming Missing Child MapMap of Missing Children
• Wyoming Internet Crimes Against Children TeamInternet Safety
• Child AbductionsAbduction Prevention
• Albany County Sheriffs Office
• Big Horn County Sheriff
• Campbell County Sheriffs Office
• Carbon County Sheriff
• Fremont County Sheriffs Office
• Goshen County Sheriffs Department
• Hot Springs County Sheriff
• Lincoln County Sheriffs Office
• Natrona County Sheriff
• Niobrara County Sheriffs Department
• Park County Sheriffs Office
• Platte County Sheriffs Office
• Sheridan County Sheriffs Office
• Sublette County Sheriff
• Sweetwater County Sheriffs Office
• Teton County Sheriffs Office
• Uinta County Sheriff
• Washakie County Sheriffs Department

Wyoming activates an AMBER Alert at the request of the investigating agency when a child under 18 has been abducted, is believed to be in danger of serious harm or death, and there is enough information about the child, the abductor or a vehicle to help the public. The alert reaches radio and television through the Emergency Alert System, phones through the wireless emergency alert system, and the Department of Transportation highway signs on Interstates 80, 25 and 90, and it is shared with Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and Idaho. Cases that fall short of the abduction standard can be publicized as an endangered missing advisory.

• Wyoming Division of Criminal InvestigationThe state missing persons clearinghouse and alert coordination, checked September 25, 2026
• National Center for Missing and Exploited ChildrenNational case posters, the CyberTipline and the 1-800-THE-LOST hotline, checked September 25, 2026
• AMBER Alert national programFederal AMBER Alert coordination, checked September 25, 2026

The Wyoming missing persons clearinghouse in the Division of Criminal Investigation keeps the statewide file of missing children and adults, posts a public listing with photos, coordinates with the National Center and NamUs, and works with the tribal police and the FBI on Wind River cases. In Wyoming, make the report to the city police, the county sheriff or the tribal police and write down the case number. Wyoming is no different: confirm the entry into the National Crime Information Center, then call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which can assign a case manager. Cheyenne and Casper police have their own detectives for missing children, and the county sheriffs cover the long distances between towns.

• Wyoming Police DepartmentsCity police departments that take missing child reports
• Wyoming County Sheriff DirectorySheriff offices for all 23 counties
• Wyoming Most WantedFugitives and outstanding warrants

Wyoming's Silver Alert covers missing seniors and adults with cognitive impairment, its Ashanti Alert, adopted in 2021, covers missing adults believed to be in danger, and its Blue Alert covers suspects who have injured or killed a law enforcement officer. Case records stay with the investigating agency, and on the Wind River Reservation they may sit with the tribe or the FBI. Under the Wyoming Public Records Act, basic incident facts are public while investigative records can be withheld, and juvenile records are confidential. For a case that stays open, the investigating agency can enter it in NamUs, the national missing persons database, where entries are reviewed and published with the agency's approval and can then be searched by anyone, as elsewhere.

• NamUsNational database of missing and unidentified persons, checked September 25, 2026
• Wyoming Criminal RecordsCriminal history and court records in Wyoming

These federal and national sources complement Wyoming's state-level records. They are the authoritative sources you should cross-check when Wyoming state records are incomplete or out-of-state activity matters.

NCMEC, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Congressionally authorized national clearinghouse for missing children. NCMEC operates the 24-hour hotline 1-800-THE-LOST (1-800-843-5678) and the CyberTipline for exploitation reports.

AMBER Alert, U.S. Department of Justice The federally coordinated AMBER Alert network. Each state operates its own plan under DOJ AMBER Alert Program guidance.

NISMART, National Incidence Study OJJDP's periodic survey of missing-child incidence in the United States, the authoritative federal statistical source.