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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Idaho Newsletter for Sunday June 14, 2020 ( 8 items )  

Alliance Defending Freedom: NCAA Should Reject Call to Punish Idaho for Protecting Women's Sports
SCOTTSDALE, June 11 -- The Alliance Defending Freedom issued the following statement: The following quote may be attributed to Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Christiana Holcomb regarding a call issued Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union and various female athletes for the NCAA to move its 2021 Men's Basketball Championship from Idaho because the state passed the Fairness in Women's Sports Act that prevents males from competing in women's sports. * * * "It's profoundly ir  more

Billie Jean King, Megan Rapinoe and Other Athletes Tell NCAA: Move 2021 Events in Idaho Due to Anti-Trans Law
BOISE, Idaho, June 11 -- The National Center for Transgender Equality issued the following news release: Civil rights, women's rights and sports groups, as well as a number of athletes, sent letters urging the National Collegiate Athletics Association to move the 2021 Men's Basketball Championship from Idaho due to the passage of a state law banning many transgender and intersex students from participating in sports. The NCAA issued a statement opposing the passage of the anti-trans sports law  more

Billie Jean King, Megan Rapinoe and Other Athletes Tell NCAA: Move 2021 Events in Idaho Due to Anti-Trans Law
BOISE, Idaho, June 11 -- The American Civil Liberties Union, a 501(c)3 non-profit that works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the U.S., issued the following news release: Civil rights, women's rights and sports groups, as well as a number of athletes, sent letters urging the National Collegiate Athletics Association to move the 2021 Men's Basketball Championship from Idaho due to the passage of a state law banning many transge  more

Center for Biological Diversity: Lawsuit Halts Border Road Construction in Key Grizzly Bear Habitat
SANDPOINT, Idaho, June 11 -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release on June 10: In response to a lawsuit filed by five conservation groups, federal agencies agreed to forego planned summer construction on the Bog Creek Road project in northern Idaho. Earlier this year the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Customs and Border Protection received approval to reconstruct the road, located just south of the Canadian border, under the guise of border security. In addition t  more

Center on Budget & Policy Priorities: Remaining 8 States Should Help Families Losing School Meals
WASHINGTON, June 11 -- The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities issued the following news: By Zoe Neuberger, senior policy analyst A staggering 1 in 3 families with children say they don't have enough food, and that's in part because schools where lots of children normally eat free or reduced-price meals are closed. A new federal program (Pandemic-EBT, or P-EBT) is beginning to compensate families for the added expense of feeding these children, but eight states -- Idaho, Montana, Nebraska,   more

GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders: Advocacy Groups Urge NCAA to Remove Events From Idaho
BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 11 -- GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders issued the following news release: GLAD and other advocacy groups signed onto a letter calling for the NCAA to remove events in Idaho in response to new anti-trans legislation. The letter can be found below, and the fully annotated version is available in PDF here. Dear NCAA Bid Selection Committees, We are writing to request you relocate all NCAA events, including the 2021 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship games/1, from I  more

Letter Urges National Center for Transgender Equality to Remove Events From Idaho
WASHINGTON, June 11 -- The National Center for Transgender Equality issued the following letter: We are writing to request you relocate all NCAA events, including the 2021 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship games,/1 from Idaho due to the state's recent passage of dangerous anti-transgender legislation that prohibits certain groups of student athletes from participating in school sports. Given Idaho's adoption of a discriminatory law that directly impacts college athletics, violates NCAA values  more

Student Nurses Association of Illinois President Appointed to Chair the NSNA Council of State Presidents Planning Committee
BROOKLYN, New York, June 9 -- The National Student Nurses Association issued the following news release: The National Student Nurses' Association (NSNA) is pleased to announce that Alexis Hodges, President of the Student Nurses Association of Illinois (SNAI) has been appointed Chair of the Council of State Presidents (COSP) by the NSNA Board of Directors. In her role as COSP Chair, Alexis will also serve as Ex-officio Director on the NSNA Board of Directors. She replaces Jerad Knight, Presiden  more