Wyoming Boys' School staff say they were told to falsify use-of-force reports on kids
Former residents of the state-run Wyoming Boys' School in Worland are suing the Wyoming Department of Family Services, the school and 10 current and former employees, alleging beatings, restraint-chair use and long stints in solitary confinement since 2018. June 2026 filings cite staff depositions saying leadership ordered them to falsify and downplay use of force in incident reports; one staffer said almost every report from 2022 to 2024 was falsified. Superintendent Dale Weber denied staff were told to downplay force. On Oct. 2, 2026, U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl ruled that some of plaintiff Blaise Chivers-King's solitary-confinement and excessive-force claims, including a due-process claim against Weber, should go to a jury, while dismissing others. DFS has denied wrongdoing. The case is pending.
A federal judge ruled Friday that for one of the young men suing the Wyoming Boys’ School there’s at least enough proof that staffers violated his rights with unconstitutional solitary confinement and physical force to send the case to trial.
Boys’ school staff said in depositions that leadership frequently ordered them to falsify and downplay the use of force in incident reports.
Wyoming Boys’ School Superintendent Dale Weber denied that the school told employees to downplay the use of force against residents in incident reports, according to affidavits filed Friday in an ongoing lawsuit alleging abuse at the school.
DFS has denied wrongdoing and says the Boys' School does not use solitary confinement as punishment.
The school has denied using solitary confinement as punishment.
Weber's affidavit says any such conduct, if it occurred, was undertaken independently and contrary to school policies.
No outcome recorded yet.