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Labrador Letter: Keeping Idaho Families Informed About Online Safety

Dear Friends, As both a parent and Idaho’s Attorney General, I’m deeply troubled by recent reports that Meta’s AI technology is exposing children to sexually explicit content and potentially facilitating online predators. I want to take a moment to share what Idaho families need to know. My office has joined a 28-state coalition demanding immediate answers from […]

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Labrador Letter: Defending Biological Reality in Federal Corrections Policy

How transgender-identifying individuals are housed in federal prisons is not a theoretical question. It directly affects the safety, privacy, and dignity of inmates, particularly women. Under the Biden Administration, federal agencies were instructed to disregard biological sex and could instead classify inmates based solely on how they self-identified. That policy treated personal identity claims as if they were biological facts and authorized prison […]

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Press Release: AG Labrador Secures Judgment Against Coast to Coast Carports, Inc.

BOISE —Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced a judgment entered in March 2025 against Coast to Coast Carports, Inc., following allegations of deceptive business practices involving custom-made garages and carports. The Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division filed suit in December 2024, alleging that Coast to Coast accepted consumer payments for custom-made garages and carports, failed to deliver […]

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Press Release: AG Labrador Joins Coalition Urging Meta to Address AI Sexual Exploitation Risks

BOISE — Attorney General Raúl Labrador has joined a coalition of 28 state attorneys general in demanding answers from Meta Platforms, Inc. after disturbing reports surfaced showing that Meta’s social media AI assistant, known as “Meta AI,” may expose children to sexually explicit content and allow adults to simulate the grooming of minors.  “The reports concerning Meta’s […]

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The 2nd Amendment Doesn’t End At State Lines

This op-ed was co-written with Austin Knudsen, the Attorney General of Montana. Imagine if your freedom of speech applied only with a store owner’s express permission, or if your right to worship disappeared the moment you entered a public park. That’s the logic behind a Hawaii law that bans gun carry preemptively on private property […]

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AG Labrador Leads Coalition Urging Supreme Court to Strike Down Hawaii’s Unconstitutional Public Carry Ban

BOISE — Attorney General Raúl Labrador of Idaho and Attorney General Austin Knudsen of Montana filed an amicus brief urging the United States Supreme Court to uphold the constitutional right to bear arms and strike down Hawaii’s sweeping restrictions on lawful public carry. The brief, filed in Wolford v. Lopez, asks the Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit ruling […]

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Labrador Letter: Idaho Defends Truckers from California’s EV Overreach

Dear Friends, This week, the State of California agreed to repeal key provisions of a sweeping electric-vehicle mandate known as Advanced Clean Fleets. This rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board, sought to force a nationwide shift in trucking technology without legal authority or the consent of other states. Idaho joined a 17-state coalition […]

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Labrador Letter: What An Attorney General Does

Dear Friends, Most people don’t spend their days reading court filings or coalition letters from attorneys general—and I don’t blame them. But behind those filings is where we do some of our most important work defending Idaho’s values, protecting our freedoms, and standing up to overreach. So in this week’s Labrador Letter, I want to […]

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Attorney General Labrador Joins Letter Demanding the Nation’s Leading Companies to Abandon DEI Initiatives

BOISE — Attorney General Raúl Labrador has joined a letter with 14 other attorneys general urging the Business Roundtable, an association of the nation’s leading companies, to abandon their unlawful and misguided DEI initiative. Many of the Roundtable’s members have replaced free-market principles with costly and divisive DEI policies against the guidance of the Supreme Court.  The […]

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Attorney General Labrador Asks Boise Mayor to Comply with State Law

BOISE — Attorney General Raúl Labrador has sent the following letter to Boise Mayor Lauren McLean addressing the City’s ongoing violation of Idaho’s recently enacted House Bill 96 prohibiting the display of unauthorized flags by cities or other governmental entities on government property. The letter reads: Dear Mayor McLean: As you are aware, the Idaho Legislature […]

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Labrador Letter: The Illegal Immigration Problem

Dear Friends, Illegal immigration isn’t just a problem for South Texas, Arizona, or California. It’s a national crisis—and Idaho is feeling the impact. Trafficking routes stretch from both the southern and northern borders into every region of the country, and our communities are not immune.  Here in Idaho, we’ve seen the consequences of the last […]

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Attorney General Labrador Warns Phone Providers Regarding Unlawful Robocall Traffic

[BOISE] – Today, Attorney General Raúl Labrador and the 51 attorneys general of the Anti-Robocall Multistate Litigation Task Force notified nine voice service providers that they may be violating state and federal laws by continuing to route allegedly unlawful robocalls across their networks. These warning letters include information about the task force’s investigation and analysis […]

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