Dear Friends, Parents make important decisions about their children’s health and well-being every day. Idaho’s Medical Freedom Act protects their ability to make those decisions without automatically losing access to childcare, schools, jobs, or other services. A recent federal court ruling upheld that principle in a challenge brought by a Boise-area daycare and three parents […]
BOISE, ID – Attorney General Raúl Labrador is warning Idahoans about the increasing number of scams involving Idaho Power Company and electrical services in the state. Currently, Idaho Power has almost 400 customer accounts that have experienced fraudulent activity, including unauthorized service requests, fraudulent payment processing, customer impersonation, and unauthorized changes to customer account information. […]
BOISE, ID—Attorney General Raúl Labrador today announced a lawsuit against OpenAI for harms caused to Idaho children, deceiving parents, and violations of the Idaho Consumer Protection Act. The Idaho Consumer Protection Act prohibits false, deceptive, or misleading representations, as well as deceptive advertising, pricing, or contracts. The action against OpenAI was filed in Idaho’s Fourth […]
Dear Friends, I recently traveled to Burley and had the opportunity to meet with Simply Hope Family Outreach and tour their new facility under construction. Simply Hope Family Outreach started in Burley in 2015 after a local family nearly lost their son to an overdose. The founders of Simply Hope decided that other families should […]
BOISE, ID – Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador released a list of 51 hazardous products subject to a federal recall from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for the month of September. These recalled products include mattresses, household appliances and furniture, and seventeen items specifically designed for infants and children. The September list ironically includes […]
Dear Friends, The Ninth Circuit recently ruled that a medical center employee’s sincerely held belief did not count as religion, even though the court never questioned her sincerity. Its rulings bind every federal court in Idaho, which is why I led a coalition of 18 states, Puerto Rico, and the Arizona Legislature in asking the […]
BOISE, ID — A federal court dismissed a lawsuit that sought to let a commercial daycare exclude Idaho children based on their parents’ private medical decisions, delivering Attorney General Raúl Labrador and the State of Idaho a complete win in defense of the Idaho Medical Freedom Act. U.S. District Judge Amanda Brailsford granted Attorney General Labrador’s […]
Dear Friends, Every parent knows that raising a child means making difficult decisions. You teach them how to cross the street, who to trust, what values to live by, and how to navigate an increasingly complicated world. Parents carry that responsibility every day. That authority and relationship do not disappear when a child walks into […]
BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador is defending the fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, urging the Ninth Circuit to affirm a federal district court ruling against California policies that allow public schools to facilitate a child’s gender identity and social transition and actively conceal it from their parents. […]
Dear Friends, In 2024, New York passed the Climate Change Superfund Act, claiming that the companies producing America’s oil, natural gas, and coal owed the state $75 billion for fuel they produced between 2000 and 2024, and it passed a law to collect. Idaho joined 21 other states to challenge that law, and a federal […]
Dear Friends, Twenty-five years ago today, America changed forever. I can still remember that morning. When I arrived at work, people were gathered around the television, watching in shock and disbelief. As I joined them, the second plane struck the South Tower. In that instant, we understood that our nation was under attack and that […]
BOISE, ID – Attorney General Raúl Labrador and a bipartisan coalition of 48 other attorneys general are pushing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to strengthen its “Know Your Upstream Provider” (KYUP) requirements to help prevent scammers from using the U.S. phone network to make illegal robocalls. KYUP rules require voice service providers to ensure that they […]