Election Board accepts FHBC primary election petitions

FORT HALL – Eleven candidates and three incumbents have filed nominating petitions by the February 24 deadline for the Fort Hall Business Council Primary Elections.
The incumbents are Alonzo A. Coby, Blaine J. Edmo and Glenn D. Fisher.
The following candidates will run in the March 26 primary election: Fredrick Auck, William N. Beasley Sr., Devon Dewayne Boyer, Louise S. Dixey, Wesley R. Edmo, Adam Boyd Hill, Nancy Eschief Muriilo, Aldene J. Pevo, Sherwin L. Racehorse, Sheryl Lynn Slim and Michael J. Christy.
The Land Use Policy Commission nominating petitions are available March 29 and the closing deadline is April 28 at 4 p.m. Tribal voter registration closes on April 27. The general election is May 28.

Attorney General: Giving tribes arrest power is constitutional

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho's attorney general says a bill to give Indian tribes authority to arrest non-tribal members on reservations without a county sheriff's consent would be constitutional.
The Coeur d'Alene Tribe has proposed the bill amid a dispute with Benewah County Sheriff Bob Kirts.
The tribe says Kirts won't respond to tribal calls for help and refuses to reinstate a cross-deputization pact that unraveled in 2007.
Benewah County and some of its lawmakers have argued giving arrest authority to tribes would violate the constitutional rights of non-tribal members.
But the review by Attorney General Lawrence Wasden's staff concluded such a law wouldn't displace a sheriff's authority, merely expand how tribal law enforcement could secure ”peace officer status.''
Marc Stewart, a Coeur d'Alene Tribe spokesman, said Monday he expects a hearing next week.
Fort Hall Business Council members say the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes aren’t endorsing the bill because the Tribes land base is different than the Coeur d’Alene’s whose land is checkerboarded with much out of trust.

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