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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<span class="eop"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background:white"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">April 12, 2022</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="paragraph" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span class="eop"><b><u><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">With illegal public encampment gone, Idaho continues fight for public health
and safety<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></span></p>
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<p class="paragraph" style="background:white"><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Boise, Idaho – The State of Idaho filed a notice of dismissal Monday to end its lawsuit seeking to stop illegal public camping on
</span></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">the Capitol Annex in downtown Boise because<span class="eop"> all individuals have dispersed and the property has been cleared for weeks.
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<p class="paragraph" style="background:white"><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Now, with a new lawsuit from public encampment advocates emerging today, Governor Brad Little said Idaho will continue its fight to protect
public health and safety.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><span class="eop"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">“Idaho does not tolerate illegal public encampments and destruction of public property.
</span></i></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Idaho is not San Francisco, Portland, or Seattle, where public officials have engaged in failed experiments to permit and encourage unsafe and destructive public camping.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“I am proud of my administration’s deliberate strategy to address a highly complex situation involving state statutes, case law, and the First Amendment while
ensuring the state meets its obligation to protect public health and safety. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">“The approach was effective, and the encampments have been gone for weeks. Idaho will continue to fight against illegal public camping, and I appreciate Attorney
General Lawrence Wasden, my administration and law enforcement for their careful response and continued work to protect Idahoans,”</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">
</span></i><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Governor Little said.<i>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">Attorney General Lawrence Wasden and Governor Brad Little’s administration
</span></span><a href="https://gov.idaho.gov/pressrelease/idaho-sues-to-stop-encampment-on-capitol-annex/"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">filed a lawsuit in March</span></a><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">
to </span></span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">stop illegal public camping and the associated health and safety violations taking place on state property.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">In the days following the lawsuit, individuals started to clear out of the encampment, where a growing number of violations and dangerous conduct requiring increased calls for police service
and enforcement action had occurred since mid-January.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="paragraph" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"># # # </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="paragraph" style="background:white"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: Marissa Morrison Hyer, Press Secretary </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="background:white"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black">208-943-1686 or </span></span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:marissa.morrison@gov.idaho.gov" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;text-decoration:none">marissa.morrison@gov.idaho.gov</span></span></a></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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