BOISE – Yesterday the Ninth Circuit federal court of appeals heard mootness arguments in Hecox v Little, the challenge to Idaho’s ban on transgender student participation in school sports.
BOISE, Idaho — Today the state of Idaho settled Doe v. Wasden, an ACLU lawsuit challenging enforcement of the state’s “Crime Against Nature” law. The state required three men to register as sex offenders in Idaho for engaging in consensual oral and anal sex.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Idaho sent a letter to Nampa School District Superintendent Gregg Russell and the Board of Trustees for the Nampa School District demanding that the district produce the records it excluded when it responded to the ACLU’s July 6 public records request.
A report from University of Michigan Law School professor J.J. Prescott finds Idaho’s sex offender registration and notification (SORN) laws “do not serve their purpose of lowering the risk of recidivism, reducing the number of total sex offenses or making communities safer.”
Federal district court Judge Nye ruled that a transgender athlete’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Idaho’s law—HB 500—is not moot, meaning the case may proceed while the law remains blocked.