The legislature hereby finds, determines and declares that government constitutes a large proportion of the Idaho work force and that it is beneficial to the citizens of this state to protect the integrity of government by providing a legal cause of action for public employees who experience adverse action from their employer as a result of reporting waste and violations of a law, rule or regulation.
Idaho Code § 6-2101
Legislative intent
Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case Wholey v. Roebuck (2002)
Most recently applied in Cryer v. Idaho Dep't of Labor (July 2018)
I.C., § 6-2101, as added by 1994, ch. 100, § 1, p. 226.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Idaho Statutes (Idaho Legislature). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Idaho statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.