Despicable.

New Wyoming Law Criminalizes Photography On “Open Land” Outside City Limits

Intending to stop do-gooders from collecting soil samples and other potentially harmful information on agriculture practices harmful to the environment, the Wyoming legislature passed the Data Trespass Bill, which makes it crime to take photographs on “open land” outside the city…

…The Wyoming law would be reprehensible enough were it applied only to Captain Planet and Planeteers out collecting soil samples to force government agencies to police farms in violation of the law. However, the potential infringement of the First Amendment right to photography in public makes the Data Trespass law especially treacherous.

“Over and over again I’ve seen promises by politicians that legislation is not going to be used in X, Y, or Z way but it doesn’t play out that way,” investigative journalist Will Potter told VICE News. “Once you put laws like this on the books they can be pushed to their limits.”