The Orem City Council voted Tuesday night to allow residents to decide in November whether the city should break away from the state's largest school district and form its own.
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On Tuesday January 11, the Orem City Council voted to create a new position in the City, Director of Legislative Counsel. Former Lehi mayoral candidate, Jesse Riddle was appointed to the position on Tuesday, January 11, following a 5-2 vote by the Council. Councilors Debby Lauret and Tom Macdonald voted against the appointment citing due diligence concerns with […]
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In Boise this week, one county commissioner’s 12-year-old son was home alone when protesters showed up there. In late October, protesters went to the home of Utah s state epidemiologist. And in Orem, Utah, last month, demonstrators targeted the governor s residence after he enacted a state of emergency.
Orem, at least, has responded with an ordinance that limits protests at private homes.
University of Idaho law professor Richard Seamon says there is legal precedent for that, pointing to a similar ordinance in Wisconsin that led to the 1988 U.S. Supreme Court decision in
Frisby v. Schultz. People started protesting outside of the home of a doctor who performed abortions, Seamon said. And the town in which he lived enacted an ordinance that banned all picketing before or about the residence or dwelling of any individual.”