Rep. Crane: Under bill, Occupiers could still have vigil - just not overnight…

Rep. Brent Crane, R-Nampa, told Occupy Boise volunteer Dean Gunderson, “I don’t think we’re going to restrict your right to have a vigil or have a protest.” Instead, he said, the legislation would restrict people from staying overnight, but protests still could occur on the Capitol Mall grounds during the daytime.

Gunderson said the Occupy Boise specifically sets up a “perpetual vigil” as its means of political expression, and he argued that the right to freedom of assembly permits that. “It is that convening is occurring,” he said.