Spokane7
53°Quick links: 2012 graduating seniors • Summer camp guide • Jobs: The Road Ahead • Prep sports • News quiz
HB 570, which would have added a public records exemption to Idaho state law to cover the identities of applicants for public employment – including all public jobs, paid or volunteer, other than elective offices – has been withdrawn. House State Affairs Committee Chairman Bill Deal, R-Nampa, asked unanimous consent in the House this morning to pull the bill back to committee, and no one objected. “I think the House bill needs to have a second look,” Deal told the House.
Questions have arisen over the bill’s broad nature, and whether it would impose secrecy on candidates for such high-profile public positions as city police chiefs, state Fish and Game Commission members, school superintendents and more.
999 W. Riverside, Spokane, WA 99201
P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210
Main switchboard: (509) 459-5000 • (800) 338-8801
Newsroom: (509) 459-5400 • (800) 789-0029
Customer service: (800) 338-8801
© Copyright 2012, The Spokesman-Review
Terms of use • Privacy policy • Copyright policy
No comments on this post so far. Add yours!
« Back to Eye On Boise
You must be logged in to post comments.
Please create a profile or log in here.