Start with the Wyoming public inspection search only after checking the jurisdiction. The state portal says local health departments handle reports in Laramie, Natrona, Sublette, Sweetwater, and Teton counties, as well as the City of Laramie. Laramie County and the City of Laramie are separate entries in that instruction.
For a premises outside those six local routes, search a partial establishment name and add the city, county, or street to narrow the match. Confirm the address and jurisdiction before opening the violation count, inspection PDF, and Past Inspection(s). For a premises in one of the listed areas, confirm the local agency first. WDA’s CHS Inspectors by County directory is a starting point for current county contacts; the City of Laramie remains a separate city route. If a state result also appears, compare its issuing jurisdiction and dates with the local records rather than merging the two histories. Official sources and the live state search were checked September 27, 2026.
Choose the custodian before interpreting a blank result
The Wyoming Department of Agriculture’s Consumer Health Services program inspects retail food establishments where a local health department does not perform the inspections. Its retail food inspection page names restaurants, grocery and convenience stores, schools, hotel continental breakfasts, bars and taverns, and institutions as examples.
That list helps identify the program, but it is not a complete jurisdiction chart for every food operation. A tribal, federal, healthcare, home-produced, or temporary-event operation may require a different records check. Confirm the issuing agency rather than assigning a custodian from the business name alone.
| Premises location | First records route |
|---|---|
| Laramie, Natrona, Sublette, Sweetwater, or Teton County | The applicable local health department |
| City of Laramie | The city local-health route identified by the state portal |
| Elsewhere in Wyoming, when WDA is the inspector | Wyoming public inspection search |
| Jurisdiction unclear or an older state record is missing | Confirm the inspector, then request records from that custodian |
Current Wyoming Title 35 directs the state to maintain a statewide database of food licenses and inspection results, but the public portal still instructs users to obtain reports from the listed local jurisdictions. The database requirement does not establish that every local report appears in the public state search.
Build the inspection sequence from the result row
The state form accepts a full or partial establishment name and offers address, city, region, county, ZIP, jurisdiction, compliance, and inspection-date inputs. Use the fewest fields needed to get a manageable list; an old spelling or changed public name can make an exact-name query miss the correct address.
For each likely match:
- Match the Name / Address and Jurisdiction to the premises.
- Record the Most Recent Inspection date, Inspection Type, and Compliance value.
- Open the Violation(s) count and the PDF for that dated event.
- Expand Past Inspection(s) and keep each earlier date, type, compliance value, violation link, and PDF together.
There is a useful conflict to notice. The WDA description page says the database contains only routine inspections and excludes other types. The live results and an expanded history displayed both Routine and Complaint rows. Follow the type printed on the actual record. Do not discard a complaint event because the description says “routine only,” and do not assume every follow-up is publicly displayed.
“In” and “Out” are compliance values, not grades
The live results showed In and Out under Compliance. No numeric score or letter grade was displayed in the result table, and some In rows still had a nonzero violation count. Treat the compliance value as the status attached to one dated inspection, not as a restaurant rating, a zero-violation label, or a statement about conditions today.
WDA’s reading guide explains several report abbreviations:
- IN means compliant, while OUT marks an out-of-compliance item.
- COS means corrected on the spot.
- C and NC identify critical and noncritical violations.
- N/A and N/O mean not applicable and not observed.
WDA describes critical violations as food-handling practices most likely to contribute to foodborne illness when performed incorrectly. Noncritical items are not directly tied to foodborne illness, but unresolved conditions can affect the operation and contribute to more serious problems. The portal also groups findings as Foodborne Illness Risk Factors and Good Retail Practices. It says risk-factor violations should be corrected immediately when possible and no later than ten days; good-retail-practice items generally must be corrected within 90 days.
Those timeframes are correction requirements, not proof of what happened later. A COS notation establishes an action during that inspection. It does not establish that every cited condition, follow-up, or enforcement matter was completed. Our restaurant health score and grade guide explains why the dated findings and later records matter more than converting a result into an unofficial grade.
A 48-hour inspection rule does not mean automatic reopening
W.S. 35-7-125 in current Wyoming Title 35 allows the regulatory authority to summarily suspend a food-establishment license when an imminent health hazard exists. That legal action is distinct from an Out value in an ordinary inspection row.
If the license holder tells the authority that the cited conditions no longer exist, the statute calls for an inspection within 48 hours after the authority receives that notice. It is not a promise that every closed establishment reopens within 48 hours. The suspension remains in effect until the authority confirms that the conditions have been eliminated. Once the authority determines that the imminent health hazard no longer exists, the statute requires immediate reinstatement and a notice to the license holder or person in charge.
For a closure question, seek the suspension notice, the later inspection, and the reinstatement notice or other final disposition. A newer In row or a corrected-on-site notation can be relevant, but neither substitutes for the agency’s reopening decision. The restaurant closure and permit-suspension guide shows how to separate an inspection, closure order, corrective evidence, and reopening record.
Use Past Inspection(s), then request the missing documents
Use Past Inspection(s) to assemble earlier events and inspect the date filters if a period is missing. The form displayed July 1, 2016 as its default start when checked; a default is not the beginning of a guaranteed archive, a retention period, or a promise of complete history.
For a WDA-inspected premises, the WDA FAQ links the past-report search and directs detailed public-records requests to wda.recordsrequest@wyo.gov. For records issued and held by one of the local health departments, use that custodian’s request route. If a relevant state record also appears for an address in a listed local area, use its issuing agency and date to identify who holds the document you need.
Identify the establishment’s legal or public name, street address, city, issuing jurisdiction if known, and a narrow date range. Ask separately for:
- routine, complaint, and follow-up inspection reports;
- any summary-suspension or cease-operations notice;
- the reinspection and reinstatement notice; and
- any revocation order or other final disposition.
A blank result does not prove that no inspection occurred. It can reflect the wrong custodian, a name or ownership change, a narrow date filter, or a record that is not exposed in the public search. Until the missing document is obtained, describe only the agency, premises, inspection date, event type, compliance value, cited findings, and later action that the records actually support.