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Idaho AG Raúl Labrador ordered to pay costs of open meetings lawsuit over Phoenix deal

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador was ordered to pay close to a quarter of a million dollars in attorneys’ fees after an Ada County judge ruled against him in his open meetings lawsuit against the State Board of Education. Labrador sued the State Board, which is also the Board of Regents of the University of Idaho, over its surprise decision to allow the North Idaho university to purchase ...

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Ryan Cole presents COVID falsehoods at Idaho Capitol, says his speeches ‘cost me my career’

A powerful conservative lobbying group in Idaho hosted Dr. Ryan Cole, a member of the Boise-area public health district, at the Idaho Capitol on Thursday for an event centered on disinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. The Idaho Freedom Foundation, which has advocated for legislation to curtail public health districts and outlaw measures like mandated masks and vaccination requirements, ...
News >  ID Government

Gov. Little’s ‘priority No. 1’ comes to fruition: Idaho funding for school facilities

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Idaho Statesman. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. School districts across Idaho will soon receive hundreds of millions of dollars to help repair and replace their aging buildings, thanks to a bill that cleared its final hurdle in the Idaho Senate on ...
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Idaho bill banning public funds for gender-affirming care goes to Senate

In a 4-3 vote Thursday morning, Idaho lawmakers on the Senate State Affairs Committee voted to move a bill forward that would prohibit transgender and nonbinary Idahoans enrolled in Medicaid, or state employees enrolled in the state’s insurance plan, from obtaining gender-affirming care.
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This Meridian lawyer was disbarred for sexting clients. Now he’s accused of rape

A Meridian child-custody lawyer was disbarred for texting clients unsolicited and explicit photos of himself and making sexually suggestive and inappropriate comments, according to a notice published in The Advocate, an official publication of the Idaho State Bar. The same lawyer is also charged with rape in a separate criminal case filed in Southeast Idaho. The victim was an unconscious ...
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‘In search of a problem’: Republicans butt heads over ‘harmful’ materials bill

The House on Wednesday passed a controversial bill to restrict materials children can view at libraries, the fourth iteration this year of a bill to crack down on books that Republicans deem are “harmful” to minors. Proponents of the bill, House Bill 710, have argued it’ll keep graphic sexual books out of the hands of children, while opponents have said those books already aren’t placed in ...
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‘A specter of fear’: Claims about Idaho ‘harmful’ books rooted in QAnon conspiracy theory

Pedophilia. Child sex trafficking. Increased child molestation. Arguments in favor of an Idaho bill to restrict obscene library material to children seemed familiar to those following conspiracy theories. Several supporters of a bill to allow lawsuits against libraries in public hearings have cited unfounded concerns about sex traffickers who “condition” children through books or the ...