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Committee advances bill to let Idaho Attorney General take complaints about city elected officials
Summary
House Bill 6 would extend to city elected officials the Attorney General's authority to investigate alleged criminal violations by elected local officials, mirroring an existing county statute; the committee sent the bill to the floor after witnesses said the Office of the Attorney General can handle city complaints without additional resources.
The House Judiciary and Rules Administration Committee voted to send House Bill 6 to the floor with a due-pass recommendation after hearing from the bill sponsor and officials from the Attorney General’s office.
Representative Chris Bruce (R-23rd District) introduced the bill, saying that the measure expands existing law to allow the Idaho Attorney General to accept and investigate complaints about city elected officials in the same manner it already does for elected county officials. "This bill just adds city officials to that as well," Representative Bruce said, explaining that the change is intended to give people in small cities a way to seek a review outside local chains of authority.
Jeff Nye, chief of the Criminal Law Division in the Idaho Attorney General’s office, described the…
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