Law cited to justify secrecy about wolf’s alleged torture may not apply

Wyoming wildlife officials on Thursday released their first public statement about a wolf that was illegally taken captive and then subjected to alleged abuses that have generated outrage around the world.  
The statement from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department stretched for only six sentences and included no names, dates or locations. The brevity and ambiguity were explained by a statute that the state agency summarized.  
“Per Wyo Stat. Ann. 23-1-304 (d)(vi) any information regarding wolves taken in Wyoming is not a public record,” Game and Fish officials told the public in the brief statement.
That’s not what the 23-1-304 section of Game and Fish’s governing statute says, though. Arguably, it’s an oversimplification and misrepresentation of the law.
The statute specifically applies only to legally killed wolves.