SPR s Doug Nadvornick reports.
The Idaho House has killed a bill that would have made it illegal for protestors to picket in front of someone’s home.
The bill was co-sponsored by Rep. Brooke Green [D-Boise] because of an incident last April. Activist Ammon Bundy and others picketed the home of a Boise-area police officer who arrested a woman who refused to leave a city park that was closed for Covid reasons.
“There’s certain segments of our society, because of whatever social fabric that they adhere to, find it ok to show up in front of our law enforcement families and terrorize them on their doorstep. I know what you’re thinking, Green said.
SPR s Doug Nadvornick reports.
An Idaho House committee voted Friday to make it illegal for protestors to picket in front of someone’s home.
The so-called “targeted picketing” bill is a response to two recent Covid-related protests in the Boise area. In one case, protesters targeted a police officer who had arrested a woman for trespassing in a closed city park. In the second, people gathered outside the home of a health district board member while the board was meeting. She rushed home to protect her children. That case is similar to a protest last July outside the home of former Spokane County Health Officer Bob Lutz.