Governor Wins Lawsuit Against Protest Encampment Outside Idaho Capitol
Idaho Gov. Brad Little recently announced that the state has won a lawsuit from a group of protestors who set up camp near the Idaho State Capitol, from January to March 2022.
In a public statement, Little said that “Idaho is not Portland, L.A., San Francisco, or Seattle where public officials have engaged in failed experiments to permit and encourage unsafe and destructive public camping.”
The lawsuit was filed after the protest had disbanded and the State of Idaho voluntarily dropped its lawsuit aiming to remove the tent encampment from state property in March last year.
According to Boise Mutual Aid Collective (BMA), the activist group behind the protest, the purpose of setting up camp in full view of the Capitol was to raise awareness of the difficulties of experiencing homelessness, with rents on the rise….