Dear Friends, Brian and Julie Wuoti wanted to open their home to children in foster care. They had the space, the love, and the commitment to help kids who needed families. The state of Vermont stepped in and told them no. Why? Because the Wuotis refused to pledge they would affirm and promote any foster […]
Dear Friends, After two years of fighting in federal court, we’ve won. Challengers to Idaho’s Vulnerable Child Protection Act have dismissed their lawsuit entirely and Idaho is now free to fully enforce our law protecting children in Idaho from harmful and irreversible gender transition procedures. This victory is more than just a legal win on […]
Dear Friends, This week I traveled to North Idaho to strengthen our partnerships with local law enforcement in the fight against child exploitation. The trip included meetings with police chiefs, time with our Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) investigators, and important discussions about how we can better protect children across Idaho. I attended the Idaho […]
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 […]
The culture war rages on multiple fronts, and for decades, conservatives who champion traditional values have been losing ground. The battle surrounds us, and on May 20, it will appear in the polling booth camouflaged as a community library trustee election. It is a seemingly minor election with only a few local issues on the […]
Dear Friends, For the many responsibilities of my office, there are few that are so personal, so morally imperative, as the Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (“ICAC”) Unit of our Criminal Law Division. The ICAC Unit identifies, investigates, arrests, and prosecutes those individuals who use the internet to exploit and abuse children in Idaho. These […]
[BOISE] – Attorney General Raúl Labrador has announced investigators with his Idaho Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force arrested fifty-six-year-old (56) Daniel DeKruyf in Twin Falls County on Thursday, August 15th, 2024, for 20 counts of Sexual Exploitation of a child. Agencies that assisted the ICAC Task Force were Rupert Police Department, Twin Falls County […]
Dear Friends, On Friday, February 16th, I filed an emergency motion with the Supreme Court of the United States regarding Idaho’s ban on transgender surgeries and medical procedures for Idaho youths with gender dysphoria. These medical treatments banned under Idaho law include puberty-blocking hormones, experimental drugs, and irreversible genital removal and mutilations. The Idaho district […]
Recently, my office joined 17 states to file an amicus brief urging the United States Sixth Circuit Court to overturn a federal Tennessee district court decision, which invalidated a law designed to protect children from obscene performances. The Tennessee legislature passed the Adult Entertainment Act (AEA), a law which sought to prevent minor children from […]
Several years ago, my father, my brother, and I were camped along a small stream in the middle of Utah, near the town of Moab. Not far from us another family was camped. The family was a mother, a father, and a pre-teen boy. One evening about dusk the boy must have done something dreadful […]
Our children are the future. When we allow our children to be taught that their physical body is not the correct body for them, we are committing a crime against the future and against God. Our precious babies should be free to live in a world where they can run, and play, where they can experience […]
One of my favorite low-brow comedies is the movie “Airplane.” Barbara Billingsley, better known to us Boomers as June Cleaver, the Beave’s mom, answers the call to serve as a translator when an African American passenger from Harlem has a medical emergency. It is absolutely hilarious. But what makes it so funny is the kernel […]