More than 100 attend Twin Falls seminar TWIN FALLS, Idaho – There were county commissioners, newspaper reporters, interested citizens, school district employees, deputy assessors, library workers, a court administrator, city clerks, and planning and zoning commissioners. There were TV reporters, mayors, cemetery district employees, state legislators, highway district clerks and lots more. And when they [...]
Forty-one attorneys general — including Idaho’s own Lawrence Wasden — support a federal shield law for journalists.
And on Monday, they wrote a letter to key senators, urging them to get moving on a shield law.
As the a.g.’s point out, shield laws that allow reporters to protect the anonymity of unnamed sources “advance a public policy favoring the free flow of information to the public.” Idaho and 48 other states already have shield laws, but a.g.’s make a strong argument on the need for a federal law.
From the IdahoStatesman.com