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Big turnout for hearing on ‘motorcycle profiling’ bill this afternoon…

A crowd fills a Capitol hearing room on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 21, 2017, for a hearing on legislation to ban
A crowd fills a Capitol hearing room on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 21, 2017, for a hearing on legislation to ban "motorcycle profiling." (Betsy Z. Russell)

There's a big crowd at the House Judiciary Committee's meeting this afternoon, including dozens of leather-clad motorcycling enthusiasts. The committee has a fairly long agenda; at its very end is Rep. Robert Anderst's bill to define and forbid "motorcycle profiling," so that law enforcement officers don't target bikers for stops or searches merely because they ride motorcycles or wear motorcycle gear. The bill is HB 123. Here's a link to my last story on the proposal.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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