date:Mar 19, 2014
The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho and other groups filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state's 'ag-gag' law, which prohibits undercover filming at agricultural operations. Gov. C.L. Otter signed the bill in February.
The bill imposes fines of $5,000 and a year in jail to those caught taking hidden-camera videos at an agricultural production facility. But the state's definition of an agricultural production facility is so broad that it stifles speech that advances