Salt Lake City, Boise Adopt Sego Belonging, Visibility, Celebration Flags to Bypass State Bans, Avoid $500 Daily Fines

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Updated May 9, 2025, 01:00 AM

Salt Lake City and Boise have adopted new official city flags, including the Sego Belonging Flag (Progress Pride), Sego Visibility Flag (transgender), and Sego Celebration Flag (Juneteenth), each featuring the city's sego lily emblem. This action follows the passage of Utah's HB77, which took effect on May 7, 2025, and Idaho's similar law, effective April 4, both of which ban the display of non-official flags, such as LGBTQ and other identity flags, on government property and in public schools.

On May 6, 2025, Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall proposed, and the City Council unanimously approved, an ordinance establishing these three new city flags to comply with the law's provision allowing official city flags to be flown. Boise City Council also designated the rainbow pride flag and an organ donation flag as official city flags to comply with Idaho's law.

Utah's law, HB77, imposes a $500 per day fine for violations and restricts the display of political and non-official flags at government buildings and schools. The law allows for the display of official city flags, which Salt Lake City and Boise are now using as a legal basis for their new flag designs.

Mayor Erin Mendenhall and Boise Mayor Lauren McLean have stated that the new flags are intended to represent diversity, equity, and inclusion. Utah Republican legislative leaders have criticized the move as an attempt to bypass state law and have not ruled out amending the law to prevent similar actions.

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