An Important Message from Representative Heather Scott I can’t imagine a child spending an entire childhood moving from foster home to foster home. Children need safety, stability, and people who love them. But I also cannot accept the idea of rushing a child away from his or her own family when a safe parent, grandparent, […]
Dear Friends, As a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, it’s always gratifying to share good news about our ongoing fight to preserve one of our most important individual constitutional rights. This month brought significant progress to take back ground for gun owners, lost in 1934 with the National Firearms Act. Effective October 9th, the […]
BOISE, ID — Attorney General Raúl Labrador is promoting community awareness and participation in the upcoming October 24th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, led by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and its state and local partners. This initiative provides easy, anonymous opportunities to remove unused, expired, or leftover medicines in the home that are highly […]
Folks, we are coming down to the wire. Just one more week of early voting, and then Election Day will be here before we know it. Countless hours of campaigning, door knocking, phone banking, and millions of dollars in donations all come down to one final night. I’m so excited to see momentum turning against […]
Every two years, Idaho voters choose who will represent them in the Legislature. That choice is especially consequential in our state’s most competitive districts. Voters in Moscow, west Boise, Pocatello, and Sun Valley will decide whether to continue on the path of faith, family, and freedom or take a detour toward division, destruction, and socialism. […]
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 […]
Idaho Taxes Bread at 6%. It Caps Billion-Dollar Factories at $400 Million Idaho taxes a low-income family’s groceries at the full sales tax rate. It exempts a billion-dollar factory’s value above $400 million. Both are policy choices, as one side’s cost falls on the other. The Short Version Idaho is one of a shrinking group […]
Where did it all start? Computers, data collection, data storage, artificial intelligence data analysis, advanced data collection technology, interoperability for sharing data between computers, data centers to store more data. With such “investments“ by the government in these new technologies the government now has to take action to protect all of it. Now that the […]
We’ve been here before. Less than four weeks before an election that could change the course of our nation’s future, all the talking heads are telling you to give up. It’s over, they say. Democrats will win the House, and probably the Senate too. President Trump will be impeached, and the MAGA agenda is dead. […]
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 […]