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Idaho Ag-Gag
May 21, 2015
Katharine Gerrity
From: bnaerebout@gmail.com on behalf of Bob Naerebout [bob@wdbs.us]
Sent: Thursday. January 30, 2014 2:38 PM
To: Katharine Gerrity
Subject: Fwd: RE: legislation
Attachments: ag protection legislation
Forwarded message
From: "Kane, Brian?I <brian.kane@aa.idaho.aov>
Date: Jan 30, 2014 1:57 PM
Subject: RE: legislation
To: "Dan Steenson" "Bob
Naerebout {bobfciiwdbsusr?r
Cc:
Hi Dan?
Attached is your draft with one minor additions?it builds in what we discussed this morning?1 was not
thinking on my feet and think that this recommendation directly addresses the question on Law Enforcement
and ISDA efi'olts without making it too broad or confusing.
Hope this helps.
Brian
From: Dan Steenson
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:57 PM
To: Kane, Brian; ghatt@house.idaho.gov; Bob Naerebout (bob@wdbs.us)
Subject: RE: legislation
1 neglected to include an emergency ciause in the draft I sent with my prior email. This attached version
contains an emergency clause.
From: Dan Steenson
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:48 PM
To: 'Kane, Brian'; Bob Naerebout (boh@wdbs.us)
Subject: legislation
1
Katharine Gerrity
From: bnaerebout@gmail.com on behalf of Bob Naerebout [bob@wdbs.us]
Sent: Thursday. January 30, 2014 2:38 PM
To: Katharine Gerrity
Subject: Fwd: RE: legislation
Attachments: ag protection legislation
Forwarded message
From: "Kane, Brian?I <brian.kane@aa.idaho.aov>
Date: Jan 30, 2014 1:57 PM
Subject: RE: legislation
To: "Dan Steenson" "Bob
Naerebout {bobfciiwdbsusr?r
Cc:
Hi Dan?
Attached is your draft with one minor additions?it builds in what we discussed this morning?1 was not
thinking on my feet and think that this recommendation directly addresses the question on Law Enforcement
and ISDA efi'olts without making it too broad or confusing.
Hope this helps.
Brian
From: Dan Steenson
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:57 PM
To: Kane, Brian; ghatt@house.idaho.gov; Bob Naerebout (bob@wdbs.us)
Subject: RE: legislation
1 neglected to include an emergency ciause in the draft I sent with my prior email. This attached version
contains an emergency clause.
From: Dan Steenson
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 12:48 PM
To: 'Kane, Brian'; Bob Naerebout (boh@wdbs.us)
Subject: legislation
1
Brian,
The attached draft incorporates the suggestions you gave us this morning. Please comment on the highlighted
change in subsection at page 1, line 34 requiring that consent be express.
Thanks again for your review.
Dan
Daniel V. Stecnson
Attorney at Law
SAWTOOTH LAW OFFECES. PLLC
HUI W. River St? Ste. 110
PO. Box 7985
Boise. ID 83707
Direct: [2081 629-7435
Of?ce: ?203! 629-7447
Fax: {2031 629-7559
dan@sawtoothlaw.com
this.
LAW
Brian,
The attached draft incorporates the suggestions you gave us this morning. Please comment on the highlighted
change in subsection at page 1, line 34 requiring that consent be express.
Thanks again for your review.
Dan
Daniel V. Stecnson
Attorney at Law
SAWTOOTH LAW OFFECES. PLLC
HUI W. River St? Ste. 110
PO. Box 7985
Boise. ID 83707
Direct: [2081 629-7435
Of?ce: ?203! 629-7447
Fax: {2031 629-7559
dan@sawtoothlaw.com
this.
LAW
1
IN THE
BILL NO.
BY
AN ACT
RELATING TO AMENDING CHAPTER 70, TITLE 18, IDAHO
CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 18?7042, IDAHO CODE, TO
PROVIDE THE CRIME OF INTERFERENCE WITH AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION,
TO DEFINE TERMS, TO PROVIDE PENALTIES, TO PROVIDE FOR
RESTITUTION, AND TO PROVIDE SEVERAEILITY.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
10 SECTION 1. That Chapter 70, Title 18, Idaho Code, be, and is
llhereby amended by the addition thereto of a NEW SECTION, to be known
12and designated as Section 18r7042, Idaho Code, be, and to read as
13 follows:
14
15 18-7042. INTERFERENCE WITH AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION.
16
17 A person commits the crime of interference with agricultural
13production if the person knowingly:
19
20 is not employed by an agricultural production facility
Zlenwi enters an agricultural production facility by force, threat,
22ndsrepresentation or trespass; or
23
24 obtains records of an agricultural production facility
25by force, threat, misrepresentation or trespass; or
26
27 obtains employment with an agricultural production
28facility by force, threat, or misrepresentation with the intent to
29cause economic or other injury to the facility?s operations,
301ivestock, crops, owners, personnel, equipment, buildings, premises,
31business interests or customers; or
32
33 enters an agricultural production facility and, without
3Ethe facility owner?s express consent or pursuant to judicial process
3 or statutory authorization, makes audio or video recordings of the
36cnnduct of an agricultural production facility?s operations; or
37
38 intentionally damages or interferes with the
39agricultural production facility's operations, livestock, crops,
i?lowners, personnel, equipment, buildings, premises, business
41interests or customers.
4?
:3 For purposes of this section:
4
45 ?Agricultural production? means activities associated
46with the production of agricultural products for food, fiber, fuel
47and other lawful uses, and includes, without limitation:
[sad
1
IN THE
BILL NO.
BY
AN ACT
RELATING TO AMENDING CHAPTER 70, TITLE 18, IDAHO
CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 18?7042, IDAHO CODE, TO
PROVIDE THE CRIME OF INTERFERENCE WITH AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION,
TO DEFINE TERMS, TO PROVIDE PENALTIES, TO PROVIDE FOR
RESTITUTION, AND TO PROVIDE SEVERAEILITY.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
10 SECTION 1. That Chapter 70, Title 18, Idaho Code, be, and is
llhereby amended by the addition thereto of a NEW SECTION, to be known
12and designated as Section 18r7042, Idaho Code, be, and to read as
13 follows:
14
15 18-7042. INTERFERENCE WITH AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION.
16
17 A person commits the crime of interference with agricultural
13production if the person knowingly:
19
20 is not employed by an agricultural production facility
Zlenwi enters an agricultural production facility by force, threat,
22ndsrepresentation or trespass; or
23
24 obtains records of an agricultural production facility
25by force, threat, misrepresentation or trespass; or
26
27 obtains employment with an agricultural production
28facility by force, threat, or misrepresentation with the intent to
29cause economic or other injury to the facility?s operations,
301ivestock, crops, owners, personnel, equipment, buildings, premises,
31business interests or customers; or
32
33 enters an agricultural production facility and, without
3Ethe facility owner?s express consent or pursuant to judicial process
3 or statutory authorization, makes audio or video recordings of the
36cnnduct of an agricultural production facility?s operations; or
37
38 intentionally damages or interferes with the
39agricultural production facility's operations, livestock, crops,
i?lowners, personnel, equipment, buildings, premises, business
41interests or customers.
4?
:3 For purposes of this section:
4
45 ?Agricultural production? means activities associated
46with the production of agricultural products for food, fiber, fuel
47and other lawful uses, and includes, without limitation:
[sad
2
1 Construction, expansion, use, maintenance and
2repair of an agricultural production facility;
3 Preparing land for agricultural production;
4 Handling or applying pesticides, herbicides or
50ther chemicals, compounds or substances labeled for insects, pests,
?crops, weeds, water or soil;
7 (4) Planting, irrigating, growing, fertilizing,
Sharvesting producing' agricultural, horticultural, floricultural
9and viticultural crops, fruits and vegetable products, field grains,
IOseeds, hay, sod and nursery stock, and other plants, plant products,
llplant byproducts, plant waste and plant compost;
12 Breeding, hatching, raising, producing, feeding and
13keeping livestock, dairy animals, swine, fur?bearing animals,
l4poultry, eggs, fish and other aquatic species, and other animals,
ISanimal products and animal byproducts, animal waste, animal compost,
16and bees, bee products and bee byproducts;
17 Processing and packaging agricultural products,
ISincluding the processing and packaging of agricultural products into
19food and other agricultural commodities;
20 Manufacturing animal feed:
21 (S) Transporting agricultural products to or from. an
22agricultural facility;
23 Selling agricultural products at a farmers or
24roadside market;
25 ?Agricultural production facility? means any structure
26cm: land, whether privately (If publicly owned, leased.<1r operated,
27that is being used for agricultural production.
28
29 A person found guilty of committing the crime of interference
30with agricultural production shall be guilty of a ndsdemeanor and
3lshall be punished by a term of imprisonment of not more than one
32year or by a fine not in excess of five thousand dollars
33or by both such fine and imprisonment.
34
35 In addition to any other penalty imposed for a violation of
36this section, the court shall require any person convicted, found
37guilty or who pleads guilty to a violation of this section to make
38.restitution to the victin1 of the offense in accordance with the
39ternm of section 19-5304, Idaho Code; provided, that such award
i?lshall be in an amount equal to twice the value of the damage
41resu1ting from the violation of this section.
42
43 SECTION 2. Severability. If any one or more provision,
44section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this act or
45the application thereof to any person or circumstance, or
46application to any other section. of Idaho Code is found 'Ua be
??unconstitutional, 'the sane: is hereby declared 13: be severable and
2
1 Construction, expansion, use, maintenance and
2repair of an agricultural production facility;
3 Preparing land for agricultural production;
4 Handling or applying pesticides, herbicides or
50ther chemicals, compounds or substances labeled for insects, pests,
?crops, weeds, water or soil;
7 (4) Planting, irrigating, growing, fertilizing,
Sharvesting producing' agricultural, horticultural, floricultural
9and viticultural crops, fruits and vegetable products, field grains,
IOseeds, hay, sod and nursery stock, and other plants, plant products,
llplant byproducts, plant waste and plant compost;
12 Breeding, hatching, raising, producing, feeding and
13keeping livestock, dairy animals, swine, fur?bearing animals,
l4poultry, eggs, fish and other aquatic species, and other animals,
ISanimal products and animal byproducts, animal waste, animal compost,
16and bees, bee products and bee byproducts;
17 Processing and packaging agricultural products,
ISincluding the processing and packaging of agricultural products into
19food and other agricultural commodities;
20 Manufacturing animal feed:
21 (S) Transporting agricultural products to or from. an
22agricultural facility;
23 Selling agricultural products at a farmers or
24roadside market;
25 ?Agricultural production facility? means any structure
26cm: land, whether privately (If publicly owned, leased.<1r operated,
27that is being used for agricultural production.
28
29 A person found guilty of committing the crime of interference
30with agricultural production shall be guilty of a ndsdemeanor and
3lshall be punished by a term of imprisonment of not more than one
32year or by a fine not in excess of five thousand dollars
33or by both such fine and imprisonment.
34
35 In addition to any other penalty imposed for a violation of
36this section, the court shall require any person convicted, found
37guilty or who pleads guilty to a violation of this section to make
38.restitution to the victin1 of the offense in accordance with the
39ternm of section 19-5304, Idaho Code; provided, that such award
i?lshall be in an amount equal to twice the value of the damage
41resu1ting from the violation of this section.
42
43 SECTION 2. Severability. If any one or more provision,
44section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this act or
45the application thereof to any person or circumstance, or
46application to any other section. of Idaho Code is found 'Ua be
??unconstitutional, 'the sane: is hereby declared 13: be severable and
3
1the balance of this act shall remain effective notwithstanding such
2unconstitutionality. The Legislature hereby declares that it would
3have passed this act, and each provision, section, subsection,
4sentence, clause, phrase or word thereof, irrespective of the fact
5that any one or more provision, section, subsection, sentence,
6clause, phrase or word be declared unconstitutional.
7
8 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
9
10 The purpose of this legislation is to protect agricultural
llproduction facilities from interference by wrongful conduct by
KZproviding penalties for such conduct and restitution to an injured
13 agricultural producer.
14
15 FISCAL NOTE
16
17There are no fiscal impacts.
18
HJContact:
20
3
1the balance of this act shall remain effective notwithstanding such
2unconstitutionality. The Legislature hereby declares that it would
3have passed this act, and each provision, section, subsection,
4sentence, clause, phrase or word thereof, irrespective of the fact
5that any one or more provision, section, subsection, sentence,
6clause, phrase or word be declared unconstitutional.
7
8 STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
9
10 The purpose of this legislation is to protect agricultural
llproduction facilities from interference by wrongful conduct by
KZproviding penalties for such conduct and restitution to an injured
13 agricultural producer.
14
15 FISCAL NOTE
16
17There are no fiscal impacts.
18
HJContact:
20
Katharine Gerrity
From: Michelle O'Brien
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:13 PM
To: Katharine Gerrity
Subject: RE: SB 1337 under Agriculture
It has been updated. also, I am assuming HCR 62 is in place of HCR 57?
From: Katharine Gerrity
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:33 AM
To: Michelle O'Brien
Subject: SB 1337 under Agriculture
Michelle will you please change my description of SB 1337 to the following:
$1337 - Identifies conduct that constitutes the crime of interference with agricultural production, including
obtaining employment with an agricultural production facility by force, threat or misrepresentation with the
intent to cause economic or other injury to the facility?s operation, and provides for penalties.
Thank you
Katharine Gerrity
From: Michelle O'Brien
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:13 PM
To: Katharine Gerrity
Subject: RE: SB 1337 under Agriculture
It has been updated. also, I am assuming HCR 62 is in place of HCR 57?
From: Katharine Gerrity
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:33 AM
To: Michelle O'Brien
Subject: SB 1337 under Agriculture
Michelle will you please change my description of SB 1337 to the following:
$1337 - Identifies conduct that constitutes the crime of interference with agricultural production, including
obtaining employment with an agricultural production facility by force, threat or misrepresentation with the
intent to cause economic or other injury to the facility?s operation, and provides for penalties.
Thank you
Katharine Gerrity
From: Michelle O?Brien
Sent: Thursday. March 20. 2014 12:52 PM
To: Katharine Gerrity
Subject: RE: SB 1337 under Agriculture
Someone else had send in the 57. They wili not be on key actions.
From: Katharine Gerrity
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:51 PM
To: Michelle O'Brien
Subject: RE: SB 133? under Agriculture
Yes, for the Sine Die report - but I didn?t submit that as one of my key actions.
From: Michelle O?Brien
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:13 PM
To: Katharine Gerrity
Subject: RE: SB 133? under Agriculture
It has been updated. Aiso, I am assuming HCR 62 is in place of HCR 53??
From: Katharine Gerrity
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:33 AM
To: Michelle O?Brien
Subject: SB 1337' under Agriculture
Michelle will you please change my description of SB 1337 to the following:
51337 - Identifies conduct that constitutes the crime of interference with agricultural production, including
obtaining employment with an agricultural production facility by force, threat or misrepresentation with the
intent to cause economic or other injury to the facility?s operation, and provides for penalties.
Thank you
Katharine Gerrity
From: Michelle O?Brien
Sent: Thursday. March 20. 2014 12:52 PM
To: Katharine Gerrity
Subject: RE: SB 1337 under Agriculture
Someone else had send in the 57. They wili not be on key actions.
From: Katharine Gerrity
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:51 PM
To: Michelle O'Brien
Subject: RE: SB 133? under Agriculture
Yes, for the Sine Die report - but I didn?t submit that as one of my key actions.
From: Michelle O?Brien
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:13 PM
To: Katharine Gerrity
Subject: RE: SB 133? under Agriculture
It has been updated. Aiso, I am assuming HCR 62 is in place of HCR 53??
From: Katharine Gerrity
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:33 AM
To: Michelle O?Brien
Subject: SB 1337' under Agriculture
Michelle will you please change my description of SB 1337 to the following:
51337 - Identifies conduct that constitutes the crime of interference with agricultural production, including
obtaining employment with an agricultural production facility by force, threat or misrepresentation with the
intent to cause economic or other injury to the facility?s operation, and provides for penalties.
Thank you
Katharine Gerrity
From: Katharine Gerrity
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:53 PM
To: Michelle O'Brien
Subject: RE: SB 133? under Agriculture
OK. 62 should be under natural resources for Sine Die. I'li submit it there with my Sine Die submissions. Thanks
From: Michelle O'Brien
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:52 PM
To: Katharine Gerrity
Subject: RE: SB 133? under Agriculture
Someone eise had send in the They will not be on key actions.
From: Katharine Gerrity
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:51 PM
To: Michelle O'Brien
Subject: RE: SB 133? under Agriculture
Yes, for the Sine Die report but i didn?t submit that as one of my key actions.
From: Michelle O'Brien
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:13 PM
To: Katharine Gerrity
Subject: RE: SB 133? under Agriculture
It has been updated. Aiso, I am assuming HCR 62 is in place of HCR
From: Katharine Gerrity
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:33 AM
To: Michelle O'Brien
Subject: SB 133? under Agriculture
Michelle will you please change my description of SB 133? to the following:
5133? - Identifies conduct that constitutes the crime of interference with agricultural production, including
obtaining employment with an agricultural production facility by force, threat or misrepresentation with the
intent to cause economic or other injury to the facility?s operation, and provides for penalties.
Thank you
Katharine Gerrity
From: Katharine Gerrity
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:53 PM
To: Michelle O'Brien
Subject: RE: SB 133? under Agriculture
OK. 62 should be under natural resources for Sine Die. I'li submit it there with my Sine Die submissions. Thanks
From: Michelle O'Brien
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:52 PM
To: Katharine Gerrity
Subject: RE: SB 133? under Agriculture
Someone eise had send in the They will not be on key actions.
From: Katharine Gerrity
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:51 PM
To: Michelle O'Brien
Subject: RE: SB 133? under Agriculture
Yes, for the Sine Die report but i didn?t submit that as one of my key actions.
From: Michelle O'Brien
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 12:13 PM
To: Katharine Gerrity
Subject: RE: SB 133? under Agriculture
It has been updated. Aiso, I am assuming HCR 62 is in place of HCR
From: Katharine Gerrity
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 11:33 AM
To: Michelle O'Brien
Subject: SB 133? under Agriculture
Michelle will you please change my description of SB 133? to the following:
5133? - Identifies conduct that constitutes the crime of interference with agricultural production, including
obtaining employment with an agricultural production facility by force, threat or misrepresentation with the
intent to cause economic or other injury to the facility?s operation, and provides for penalties.
Thank you