Active investigation
Law enforcement officers from at least nine Idaho agencies testified before the Legislature against HB659, HB660, and SB1442, bills aimed at strengthening immigration enforcement. The open questions: who authorized the travel, who paid for it, and whether taxpayers footed the bill.
LEO Accountability Project. 9 FOIAs filed. 1 agency with zero response; no petition will be filed.
Federal courts
Which federal judges are blocking which policies, who appointed them, and how that compares to past presidents. Every ruling sourced and classified the same way, term after term. Idaho is governed under federal law too.
Federal courts
How Trump 2.0 compares to Bush, Obama, Trump 1.0, and Biden.
In development
Local government watch
School boards, city councils, and county commissions make decisions that hit your family first, and almost nobody watches them. A tracker covering all of them across Idaho is in the works.
CDA City Council
Passed three weeks before July 4th. Police can now cite you based on your neighbor's fireworks debris. Three other council members had privately questioned the ordinance's author.
June 17, 2026. Council Bill 26-1011.
Campaign finance
$1.3M to a Virginia firm run by Jeb Bush's campaign manager. $545K to a Florida data shop.
June 2026.
Updating
$53,240.69 confirmed and rising. Planning started 28 days before HB 561 was signed, on the Mayor's direct orders.
May 20, 2026.
CDA investigation
Randy Adams denied a request about his own conduct twice, using two different legal theories.
May 19, 2026.
FOIA pending
$13.37 charged to a fund backed by a $263M federal EPA loan.
June 10, 2026.