The Home School Legal Defense Association offers homeschoolers a variety of fine arts contests throughout the year. Their website explains:
Every year, HSLDA offers creative contests in poetry, videography, short story writing, photography, art, and essay writing. HSLDA’s contests provide homeschooled students the opportunity to hone their skills in a fun and creative setting that invites them to think outside the box and be rewarded for excellence. Contests are open to all homeschooled students (ages 7–19)…All contest profits go to HSLDA Compassion, which uses them to provide low-income homeschooling families with access to educational and legal resources to help them continue homeschooling.
The two contests that are currently open are the Photo Contest and the NEW Short Story Contest. Details of the Photo Contest are available here; details of the Short Story Contest are available here. Both contests require an entry fee of $10 for HSLDA members and $15 for nonmembers.
Washington, D.C.–Citing continued concerns with the unsustainable path of the national debt,U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) issued the following statement after voting against the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA), which passed the Senate 63-36.
“The Fiscal Responsibility Act makes important progress in addressing the discretionary side of federal spending, including by rescinding a portion of unused COVID funds and bloated IRS funding. It also reforms the U.S. permitting process and includes targeted improvements to social programs that ensure the safety net is serving those who need it most. Most importantly, the United States will avoid default on paying its bills.
“However, because the White House waited months to engage in serious, bipartisan conversations with Republicans, Congress was left with little time to adequately address our overall ballooning national debt, keeping spending at swollen, post-COVID levels.
“The Fiscal Responsibility Act is a missed opportunity for true budget reforms to prevent the type of excessive spending we have seen over the last two years. This was a time to ensure new federal government bills do not continue to pile up. Instead, the White House continues to push its inflationary policies with no firm commitment or requirement to exercise fiscal restraint. America’s long-term fiscal gap is unsustainable, and we have a responsibility to fix it.”
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho – Governor Brad Little visited Coeur d’Alene today to highlight takeaways from his briefing and aerial tour of the Texas-Mexico border two weeks ago and to announce additional steps his administration is taking to fight fentanyl.
“Drug cartels, not Americans, are controlling access into our country. Drug cartels are taking advantage of the chaos at the border to smuggle more fentanyl and other deadly drugs into our communities. The federal government’s open border policies incentivize mass illegal immigration and cartel activity along the border. Our country is experiencing a level of global migration into our country at a rate we cannot come close to keeping up with,” Governor Little said.
Governor Little joined nine fellow governors for a briefing at the border in late May. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, the Texas Military Department, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), and the Texas Border Czar participated in a border security briefing with the governors and provided on-the-ground intelligence about the border crisis.
During the Texas briefing, Governor Little received an overview of Texas’ comprehensive Operation Lone Star border security mission and an explanation of the effective tools and strategies the State of Texas has utilized to deter and repel illegal immigration along the southern border. Governor Abbott recognized the states of Idaho and Florida for sending assistance to Texas. Since then, additional states have committed resources to advance Operation Lone Star. A total of 13 states are now providing more than 1,300 guardsmen and more than 230 law enforcement personnel to try to slow the flow of drugs into our country.
Governor Little announced in May he would send two teams of Idaho State Police troopers to Texas to assist and train with Texas DPS. The teams are enhancing their knowledge through varied experiences such as cross-border smuggling, human trafficking, and drug interdiction, and they will return to train other law enforcement agencies in Idaho.
Governor Little also announced today he would assemble a roundtable of legislators, law enforcement, and others in the coming weeks to discuss new ways the State of Idaho can continue to assist neighbor border states and gain additional expertise on drug interdiction in order to protect Idaho communities.
Governor Little recapped the actions the State of Idaho is taking to turn the tide in the fentanyl crisis:
Idaho launched a campaign, Fentanyl Takes All, to help educate and inform Idahoans, especially our youth and their parents, about the dangers of fentanyl. The Governor’s Office is preparing for an announcement soon about the effectiveness of the Governor’s fentanyl awareness campaign.
Idaho added more roadside testing equipment to help ISP get fentanyl off our streets more quickly.
Idaho will add a new statewide drug interdiction team at ISP to intercept fentanyl coming into our state.
Idaho is improving information sharing between law enforcement, first responders, health care, tribes, coroners and others to tackle the problem strategically.
Idaho is increasing resources for mental health and behavioral health to help prevent tragedy.
Governor Little and his administration are continuing to work with border states to help reduce the supply of drugs coming into America across the open border from the drug cartels.
Governor Little’s past actions in support of border security, fight against fentanyl
In September of 2021, Governor Little and dozens of other governors plead the President to listen to them about the need to control the border. The letter followed another request sent by the Governors earlier that year, which also went unanswered.
Following the 15-day period with no response from the Biden administration, the governors released 10 policy solutions the administration could enact immediately to protect America, restore security, and put us on a path to end the crisis at the southern border. The administration never responded, and the border crisis has only become more deadly and dangerous for both Americans and migrants in the time that has passed.
In 2022, Governor Little recommended and the Legislature approved $250,000 to carry out objectives of the initiative, and he directed another $1 million that summer to fight the deadly impacts of fentanyl.
Governor Little launched a campaign, Fentanyl Takes All, to help educate and inform Idahoans, especially our youth and their parents, about the dangers of fentanyl.
Governor Little also requested and the Legislature approved adding more roadside testing equipment to help ISP get fentanyl off our streets more quickly. Idaho will add a new statewide drug interdiction team at ISP to intercept fentanyl coming into our state, and Idaho is improving information sharing between law enforcement, first responders, health care, tribes, coroners and others to tackle the problem strategically. Idaho is also increasing resources for mental health and behavioral health to help prevent tragedy.
Governor Little joined 23 other governors in May in vocalizing their support of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s plea to the nation’s governors to support the state’s efforts to secure the border. He traveled to Texas in May for a briefing and aerial tour of the border crisis and committed two teams of ISP troopers to assist and train with Texas DPS.
Guys are Guys and Girls are Girls
There is no in-between
By: Brian Almon
Brian Almon
The annual celebration of America’s civic religion started with a bang this year. Kellogg High School in rural North Idaho sanctioned graduating senior Travis Lohr for daring to utter the basic biological truth that men are men and women are women. The Idaho Tribune has been covering this story closely – see here and here – and I wrote about it at Idaho Freedom Foundation as well.
In addition to Lohr, the school also fired longtime bus driver Dakota Mailloux for attending the Friday morning walkout in support of Travis’ right to free speech. Despite doing so of his own accord and on his own time, Mailloux was pulled away from the gathering and summarily dismissed.
The particulars of this story run the entire culture war gamut. Lohr was sanctioned not only for exercising his free speech, but it was for saying something that is objectively true. It is not yet known who complained about Lohr’s statement, whether it was a fellow student, a teacher, or an administrator, but we do know that the art teacher at Kellogg is an outspoken leftist. Rachel Clark-Krusemark was making news more than ten years ago for bringing the pornographic production “The Vagina Monologues” to Kellogg, and she is “married” to Shoshone County Sheriff Holly Lindsey.
That last bit is interesting, because when the school announced they were postponing graduation, they cited a report from the sheriff’s office warning of “threats” from unspecified right wing provocateurs. The sheriff’s office later posted on Facebook that they did not cancel graduation, rather they claimed that “protesters from out of county” that were “known for violence” were coming to disrupt the ceremony. They offered nothing to back up this claim.
You recognize this sort of rhetoric for what it is, of course. Right wing protests are always tagged as violence, no matter how peaceful,while left wing protests are always tagged as peaceful, no matter how violent. Woke leftists infiltrated our institutions to spread their ideology, and then act offended when we stand up and say stop.
In any case, the postponement was just a smokescreen as Kellogg carried out its graduation ceremony in secret. Travis Lohr did not attend.
This is the reality of LGBTQ+ Pride: you will be made to comply. It’s no longer about tolerance or inclusivity, if it ever was, rather it is about imposing a new secular religion on the American people. Conquerors always tear down the flags and monuments of the cultures they conquer and impose their own instead.
If this seems like hyperbole, consider what time it is. The moment the clock ticked over to June 1, nearly ever corporation, every media outlet, and every government office in America dutifully covered their profiles in rainbow regalia. The same people who have long held that burning an American flag is free speech want hate crime charges for anyone who burns a pride flag. Leaving skid marks on a pride-colored crosswalk is also a hate crime now. And, of course, uttering the words “guys are guys and girls are girls” gets a high school student kicked out of his own graduation ceremony.
As I wrote last year after observing Boise Pride Fest, this totalitarianism is wrapped in pretty colors and cheerful rhetoric that masks both unbearable pain as well as a desire to corrupt the innocent. That is why it was never going to be enough to tolerate such perversity, because their ideology demands total compliance. It is not enough for a trans person to conceptualize him or herself as the opposite sex; they must enforce that delusion at gunpoint on everyone else, lest – like the child who said the emperor was wearing no clothes – someone dare to point out the obvious and shatter the illusion.
I finally watched Matt Walsh’s documentary “What is a Woman” last night, since it is currently streaming for free on Twitter. It did not tell me anything I did not already know, but it was a stark reminder of what we are up against. I realized as I watched that the issue at hand is not biological but grammatical. In a move straight out of Orwell, mentally ill people and their leftist enablers are attempting to redefine words and then force us to accept the new definitions.
For all of human history we have defined a woman as a human being with certain physical characteristics that enable her to bear and nurture children, while a man has other characteristics. Women are generally more emotional, while men are generally physically stronger. There are always outliers, of course, but they are outliers for a reason – a dog born with three legs does not cease being a dog, just as an infertile woman or an effete man are still female and male, respectively.
What the left is doing here is redefining language. As you can see in Walsh’s documentary, they change the meaning of the word woman to be a feeling, an attitude, an ephemeral affectation. They claim that someone who is physically male can actually be a woman who was born in the wrong body, an idea that makes zero sense once you give it the slightest thought. But that’s the trick – they don’t want you to think, only comply. They use the carrot of inclusivity and tolerance, and the stick of labeling you a bigot if you don’t join in the mass delusion.
That is why Travis Lohr had to be punished, because the entire house of cards falls apart once people start questioning the propaganda.
The transgender delusion is driven by a hatred of nature and of nature’s God. God made male and female, but we, they say, almighty modern human beings, can transcend that, and be anything we want. But just like every other attempt to be like God, this one is doomed to fail. Go look at pictures of what so-called gender affirming care really is and tell me that this is a positive thing for people suffering from gender dysphoria or fetishes like autogynephilia.
The lesson of the controversy is that not even rural communities are safe from the woke mind virus. It is easy to dismiss stories of LGBTQ+ indoctrination as a big city problem. “Just stay out of Boise and you’ll be fine,” people say. Yet the sanctioning of Travis Lohr is proof that if this is not in your community now, it will be soon. Closing your eyes and hoping for the best is a surefire way to lose. Teachers in Kellogg High School were promoting woke doctrines for years before it became a flashpoint in the culture war, and the leadership of rural Shoshone County thought nothing of putting a lesbian woman in charge of their law enforcement, except for what great headlines it would make in the corporate press. Now the woke cancer has metastasized, and ruined what should have been a joyful time for one young Idaho man.
The conservative movement and the Republican Party have allowed wolves to sneak in wearing sheep’s clothing. Over in Pocatello, a parent complained to Republican Rep. Richard Cheatum about his vote against H314, which would have kept schools and libraries from giving obscene material to children. Cheatum responded by essentially accusing her of hate and homophobia. With Republicans like these, who needs Democrats?
If there is one good thing to come of this affair it is the knowledge that some young people are not going to take this indoctrination lying down. Travis Lohr told the world that the emperor has no clothes, and we as a movement must make sure he is taken care of. Leftists take care of their own – Antifa and BLM rioters who burn down buildings and assault innocent people can count on a network of donors and lawyers to make sure they never spend an hour in jail. Travis Lohr has already missed out on his graduation, but we should make sure that he is rewarded for his brave stand. That is why I am pleased that my colleagues at IFF set up a GiveSendGo campaign inviting supporters to donate toward a graduation gift for Travis. As of this writing the campaign is over $3,000 already, which gives me hope for the future of our country.
A similar campaign for Dakota Mailloux, the bus driver who was fired for supporting Travis, is nearly at $3,000 as well. It is the courage of men like Travis and Dakota that will save this country, not thinkpieces written from the comfort of ivory towers.
In addition to supporting those who stand up for truth, we must also offer an alternative to the celebration of deviance that has been foisted on our country. I was pleased when my boss at IFF, Wayne Hoffman, came up with an idea to spend the month of June celebrating those heroes who, like Travis Lohr, were unafraid to stand up for truth and American values even in the face of leftist persecution. Many of the figures on our list have been canceled, whether in their lifetimes or long after their deaths, by the same woke mob that demands that Travis be punished for speaking the truth.
Human nature does not change, no matter our technology or our understanding of the universe. Perhaps no sin is condemned more in Scripture than pride, yet this entire month is a corporate and government sponsored celebration of that very sin. How long do nations last with such a moral inversion?
Biology does not change either, but language is malleable. If we do not loudly proclaim the truth, as Travis Lohr did last week, it will eventually be lost under a confusing pile of ever-changing definitions. The history of human philosophy has always been about a search for truth, but today’s propaganda tries to convince you that truth is meaningless and that nothing is absolute. The basis for any understanding of truth is an agreement that things are what they are – A is A, as Aristotle said, or 2 + 2 = 4. George Orwell explained that “freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.” If we do not exercise that freedom it will be inexorably taken away from us until we are entirely enslaved to an ideology of lies.
Never sacrifice the truth, no matter the consequences. A is A, 2 + 2 = 4, and guys are guys, girls are girls. There is no in-between.
Note: A descendant of American pioneers, Brian writes about the importance of culture and about current events in the context of history. His work can be found on Substack, here.
(Congressman Mike Simpson Press Release, May 31, 2023)
Washington, D.C. – Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson today [May 31] voted in favor of H.R. 3746, the Fiscal Responsibility Act. This legislation builds on House Republicans’ efforts in the Limit, Save, Grow Act by raising the debt ceiling through January 1, 2025, and including nondefense spending cuts, permitting reforms for domestic energy production, and reasonable work requirements for federal welfare program recipients.
“I am proud of Speaker McCarthy and our Republican leadership team that held out strong in negotiations with President Biden not only to stop an immediate crisis, but also to include consequential reforms that address underlying spending issues and put our nation on a sustainable long-term path to financial stability,” said Simpson. “The Congressional Budget Office estimates that this bill will reduce the deficit by $1.5 trillion over ten years, while fully funding critical veterans’ programs, national defense priorities, and preserving Social Security and Medicare.”
Additional highlights that Republicans successfully negotiated to include in this legislation:
Immediate cuts to IRS funding for more agents
Restarting student loan repayments
Rescinding $28 billion of unspent COVID relief funds
Incentivizing Congress to pass appropriations legislation by requiring cuts in the event of a Continuing Resolution.
The bill increases defense spending to match the Pentagon’s overall defense request; rejects all $5 trillion of President Biden’s proposed new tax increases, new government mandates, and new federal programs; and requires the Executive Branch to offset any potential future spending increases.
“Raising the debt limit does not create new spending—rather, it allows the federal government to pay back loans that were taken out in the past and ensures that the government meets its obligations to bondholders, taxpayers, Social Security recipients, and the veterans and service men and women who have served our country faithfully,” said Simpson. “Democrats’ unchecked spending got us to the circumstance we’re in today, and this bill sets a strategic and responsible path forward to grow the economy and save trillions in taxpayer dollars, which is why I was proud to vote in favor of this legislation.”
H.R. 3746 passed in the House of Representatives on May 31, 2023, by a vote of 314-117 and awaits further action in the U.S. Senate.
Note: The Senate passed the Fiscal Responsibility Act on June 1 in a 63-36 vote, and it was signed into law on June 3. Congressman Russ Fulcher and Senators Jim Risch and Mike Crapo all voted against the bill.
(Bannock County Assessor’s Office Press Release, June 4, 2023)
It is hard to believe June is already here! We are busy preparing for Assessment Notices to go out in the mail. The printing vendor still has the completed files, and they plan to mail them by Monday, June 5th, 2023, so start watching for them in the mail. You are welcome to call our office if you don’t want to wait to see what your value is.
By preparing for Assessment Notices, I mean that we start getting our processes, phone logs, and email logs ready so we can stay organized and give great customer service. We also go over ways to explain our assessments and to work with customers as they come in.
We are also still waiting for news on the Property Tax Reduction Program, but the data has not been sent to us yet, because of the new changes to the program. Last year, 36 individuals were not eligible for the tax relief because of the value of their home. To qualify, the property value must be within 150% of the county’s median home value. Our median last year + the 150% came out to be $433,983. Anyone who applied for the PTR Program whose property was above that value did not qualify for the tax exemption. This year the legislature changed that limit (House Bill 292) to be within the county’s median value of the county + 200%. So, we anticipate that either no one will be taken off the program or very few people. When we get the median and PTR Data from the State, we will share that information as soon as we can.
We have seen the market settle down some. We are not seeing the major increases in residential property values that we did in the last two years. Manufactured home values have increased, as well as some rural land values. This is due to the increase in sales. We are seeing increased values in commercial properties; however, we still are not quite finished with the conversion process. We expect that to be complete for 2024. Agriculture property values either stayed the same or went down depending on the category it was in. (ex: dry graze, irrigated, etc.).
To help you prepare for the arrival of your Assessment Notice, we have included in the newsletter this month a copy of an assessment notice that explains some of the information in the notice to make it easier to understand.
As always, please call or come into our office any time Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., to let us help you with any concerns or questions. 208-236-7260 or 208-236-7498 (this number is only available during the month of June).
(Attorney General’s Office Press Release, June 2, 2023)
Boise–Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador announced that 42 states, led by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, have negotiated a nationwide $102.5 million settlement with the maker of Suboxone, Indivior Inc. Idaho will receive about $920,000 from the settlement.
“Indivior has used our nation’s drug problem to enrich itself. The company, in an attempt to shield its opioid addiction treatment Suboxone from generic competition, forced consumers to pay inflated prices for the treatment. Not only is this practice illegal, but it is morally reprehensible,” Attorney General Labrador said.
In 2016 the States filed a complaint against Indivior Inc. alleging that they used illegal means to switch the Suboxone market from tablets to film while attempting to destroy the market for tablets, in order to preserve its drug monopoly. Trial had been set for September 2023.
The agreement, which will be submitted to the court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for approval, requires Indivior to pay the states $102.5 million. Indivior is also required to comply with negotiated injunctive terms that include disclosures to the States of all citizen petitions to the FDA, introduction of new products, or if there is a change in corporate control, which will help the States ensure that Indivior refrains from engaging in the same kind of conduct alleged in the complaint.
Wisconsin’s Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, Gwendolyn Lindsay Cooley, is the lead attorney for the 42 States, including Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
(State Department of Education Press Release, June 2, 2023)
Boise – Members of the public are welcome to review initial drafts of the new Idaho Extended Content Standards alignment for English Language Arts/Literacy (ELA/Literacy), Mathematics and Science, and are encouraged to comment on the standards.
This input will be used to guide the remaining work needed to finalize the extended standards alignment and present them to the State Board of Education on August 23, 2023.
The statewide review process includes educators, parents, administrators and other educational partners who serve on review committees for each content area. These educational partners worked throughout the winter and spring to provide these initial drafts for public review and comment.
To review the initial draft standards alignments, go to the State Department of Education’s Content Standards Review page and select English Language Arts/Literacy, Mathematics or Science under the 2022/23 Content Review Information section. Once a draft has been reviewed, members of the public may submit their feedback using one of the following comment forms:
I have a dear friend named Ron, who lives in California. Whenever I see him or talk to him on the phone he will say “I love cops.” He then goes on to tell me that I was a great cop. I wish that more people had that attitude and belief in cops. Not that they think or believe I was so great, but that they appreciate cops for what they do as much as my friend Ron.
It’s sad that so many people have no idea how cops work. It’s rarely like what you see on TV or in the movies. For most of the general public the only interaction they have with a police officer is when they are stopped for a traffic violation, or they are the victim of a crime.
There is a little-known truth that 10% of the people in any given neighborhood commit 90% of the crime. Another sad fact is that of those 10% many of them will be victims one day and a suspect in a different crime the next. Why are crime stats soaring today? It’s because criminals are arrested and then let out of jail even before, as some have said, “the ink on the police report has had time to dry.” When criminals are put in jail, they are unable to commit more crimes. It’s that simple.
I served as a police officer in the fifth largest city in California. I have a degree in Criminal Justice and have worked on a variety of details in my 20 plus years on the job. These assignments include Patrol, Vice, and Narcotics. I also was in charge of over 60 Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) Officers in the Department as well as being one of the few nationally recognized DRE Instructors in my Department. I tell you all this not to boast but to show you that I have a lot of training and experience in the field of Law Enforcement.
Most people do not have any idea what police officers do on a daily basis. The one thing they do more than anything else is risk their very lives for you. They do things that most people will never experience in their lifetime. They see people, including children, victimized over and over again because our courts are inadequate, our prosecutors are overworked, and our juries never learn the whole truth during a trial. Why do they do it? Most of them do it because they have a heightened sense of justice. They do it because they have a desire to protect those who can’t protect themselves. They do it because they know when bad guys are in jail, they are unable to hurt their family or yours.
I was dismayed a few years ago during the “war on cops.” I would ask everyone who would discuss this with me “who will protect the innocent if we don’t have the police?” The answer I most often received was “no one” or “I don’t know.” Everyone who will use their eyes to see are beginning to realize that when the cops no longer will protect you, are restricted or unable to, you will have to protect yourself. We all saw how that worked out for the bodega worker in New York last year who was arrested for defending himself from an assault and, most recently, for Daniel Perry who was trying to protect others on a subway car from a homeless man making very scary threats to its passengers.
Ayn Rand from her novel, Atlas Shrugged, wrote this, “If you are unsure who to trust in these confusing times: Trust the courageous one. Truth requires courage. Courage requires fortitude, truth requires integrity. Cowards tell lies, cowards support liars. Telling a lie is easy, believing a lie is easy, being compliant is easy, staying silent is easy. Trusting without thinking is easy. Thinking for yourself is hard, standing up for yourself is hard, being real and authentic is hard.In times like these it takes all the courage in the world to question the status quo and to speak up and tell the truth. Trust the courageous.”
Police officers are the courageous. More than 800,000 police officers put their lives and well-being on the line every time they go to work. They make over 10 million arrests each year. They have more than 60 million interactions with the public each year and yet only 2% of those interactions require them to use force. Less than 1% of all police officers in the United States last year were charged with misconduct. To me that’s a pretty good record for all that police officers have to deal with.
Whenever someone would complain to me about the perceived mistreatment they received from a police officer, I would tell them this, “we have a problem, we have to get our police officers from the human race.” Yes, some officers do not meet the standards most of us expect and some go bad after serving a number of years. But they are the exception rather than the rule. I believe that police officer training is the best way to prevent “bad cops.” The problem is few police agencies can afford the money to train police officers adequately.
Each police officer will encounter between 400 and 600 traumatic events in his career. The average citizen will experience two or three in a lifetime. Maybe this is why police officer suicide is on the rise. The next time you see a police officer, smile and know that he has your safety and best interest in mind.
Ski Ingram is a life member of Lester Keate Post 90 of the American Legion in St. George, Utah. He now lives in Gilbert, Arizona. He is a combat veteran and is a life member of six different veteran’s organizations as well as the NRA. He can be reached at Ski@Skiingram.com Or www.Skiingram.com.
Idaho Falls–Stand Up For Idaho, an Idaho Falls-based nonpartisan citizens’ organization that peacefully and actively advocates for the rights and liberties of all Idaho citizens, is hosting a presentation by Bonneville County Sheriff Samuel Hulse at their next Wednesday meeting on June 7. Young will discuss a variety of topics relevant to the security of Bonneville County, including fentanyl and border security.
SUFI’s announcement reads:
Bonneville County Sheriff Samuel Hulse is coming to talk with us about what’s happening in Bonneville County and across the state, including the fentanyl and the poisoning of America, the border crisis and how illegal immigration may affect Bonneville County, and more. Come prepared to ask the hard questions.
Sheriff Samuel Hulse is the current Sheriff of Bonneville County. He has worked for Bonneville County for the last 24 years and has 31 years of experience in the Law Enforcement profession. Sheriff Hulse has experience in Patrol, Narcotics, Special Operations and as an Emergency Medical Technician. In addition to leading the Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Hulse currently serves on several local and State boards including Region VII Behavioral Health, the Behavioral Health Crisis Center of East Idaho, Region VII Crisis Intervention Team, DIGB6 (District 6 Emergency Communications Interoperable Governance Board), Behavioral Health Crisis Center of East Idaho Advisory Board, Idaho State Public Communication Commission and the Idaho Behavioral Health Council Advisory Board. In January of 2022, Sheriff Hulse was appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Sheriff’s Association.
Sheriff Hulse and his wife Michelle have been married for 32 years. They have four sons, four granddaughters and one grandson.
The class will be held at the Snake River Event Center (Shilo Inn), located at 780 Lindsay Blvd. in Idaho Falls. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., and the class begins at 6:30 p.m.
