Checking a guard or a security company in Wyoming

This page is for whoever is doing the checking — a client, a property manager, a company vetting a subcontractor. It tells you what a guard and a guard company are supposed to hold in Wyoming, and walks you to the regulator’s own records to confirm it.

tessura is not a Wyoming agency and issues nothing. Every link below goes to the regulator, and the regulator’s answer is the one that counts.

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Check the guard

Wyoming has no statewide guard licence, so what a guard needs depends on the city or county.

How to check it

Understand that Wyoming has no state guard licence and no state security regulator, so there is no state record to check and no state office to call.
Read the state’s own position if a provider pushes back: the Division of Criminal Investigation FAQ at wyomingdci.wyo.gov/operations/pi-faqs states plainly that no licence is required to operate a security firm in Wyoming.
Contact the city clerk or police department where the guard will actually work and ask whether that city regulates security guards or firms by ordinance.
Treat Secretary of State registration for what it is — proof a business entity exists, not proof anyone is trained, screened or insured.
Put the weight on the company instead: a current certificate of liability insurance naming you, a written background-check policy, and documented firearms qualification for any armed post.

Why there is no link to click

Wyoming licenses neither individual guards nor security firms at state level. The Division of Criminal Investigation says so in its own PI/Security FAQ: a licence is not required to be a private investigator or to operate a security firm, though "some municipalities may regulate private security firms" by ordinance and a firm may need to register with the Secretary of State as a business. There is therefore no state record of any kind to search.

There is no state agency to call. Confirm the company legally exists through the Wyoming Secretary of State business entity search at sos.wyo.gov, contact the city clerk where the guard will work — Cheyenne has a codified chapter licensing detective, patrol and guard service businesses — and require the company to produce its own background-check, training and insurance documentation.

Check the company

Wyoming does not license security companies at the state level, so there is no company licence to check. That is a fact about the state, not a mark against any firm.

Wyoming does not license security firms — the Division of Criminal Investigation answers the question directly, saying no licence is required beyond ordinary business registration. Cheyenne licenses guard service businesses through the city clerk, but no statewide registry exists.

With no licence to check, lean harder on the things that do exist: the guard credentials above, insurance, workers’ compensation, and a business registration in good standing with the Wyoming Secretary of State.

Ask for insurance properly

A licence says the state let them operate. Insurance is what stands between you and a claim, and it is the easier of the two to fake — a certificate is only true on the day it was printed.

A certificate of insurance (COI) that names your business as an additional insured, not just the certificate holderCertificate holder means you were mailed a copy. Additional insured means their policy actually answers for you if you are pulled into a claim.

General liability, and workers’ compensation at your state’s statutory limitsIf a guard is hurt on your property and the company carries no workers’ comp, the claim tends to land on you. Ask for commercial auto too if they run patrol vehicles.

The policy number and the effective and expiry dates, on a certificate dated within the last monthAn undated or months-old certificate is the single most common tell. The dates let you ask the insurer about the right policy.

The name, agency, and direct phone number of the broker who issued it — then call themThe broker can confirm the policy is in force today. The certificate PDF cannot, and a forged or stale one looks identical to a real one.

A contract term requiring written notice to you before the policy is cancelled or non-renewedStandard certificates promise notice to the insured, not to you. Putting the duty on the company in the contract is what makes a mid-term cancellation a breach.

A fresh certificate part-way through the term, not only at signingRe-asking at 60 or 90 days costs you an email and defeats the whole get-the-COI-then-drop-it pattern.

tessura does not verify anyone’s insurance and has no access to insurers’ records. This is guidance for doing it yourself, not a statement about any company on this site. It is also not legal advice — for a contract of any size, have your own counsel or broker set the limits.

Where this comes from

Wyoming requirements last reviewed August 28, 2026. Some details on this state are still pending a second check against the primary source. Rules change — the regulator’s page is authoritative if it disagrees with ours.

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