Former Idaho GOP Chairman Blake Hall has been ordered to stay at least 900 feet away from an Idaho Falls woman by a court in Bonneville County, as reported by the Idaho Falls Post-Register on Friday.

Hall is the subject of a temporary civil protective order, which is set to expire Sept. 15. A hearing is set for Wednesday before a judge to consider extending the order.

Idaho Falls police also are investigating Hall in connection with a complaint filed by the woman Monday, Sgt. Phil Grimes told the newspaper. The Post-Register did not identify the woman, citing its policy in such cases.

The newspaper did not publish details of the woman's allegation. On Friday, a deputy Bonneville County court clerk told the Idaho Statesman that the file in the case is sealed.

Hall did not immediately return phone calls to his home, office and cell phone from the Statesman Friday morning. He also did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment from him or his attorney.

Hall, 56, is a the chief civil attorney for Bonneville County and a powerful political insider whose government clients pay his law firm $600,000 a year. He also is a lobbyist for the operator of the cleanup arm at the Idaho National Laboratory. He resigned in April after nine years on the State Board of Education, where he oversaw a centralization of power in the board advocated by former Gov. Dirk Kempthorne. Gov. Butch Otter and the Legislature this year undid much of the change Hall had engineered.

Also this year, Hall resigned his post as general counsel to the Republican National Committee, the top legal position at the governing body for the national GOP. Hall remains a member of the RNC as Idaho's national committeeman, a post he's held since 1990. Hall is a member of the RNC's budget committee.

The protective order also calls for Hall to stay at least 900 feet away from the woman's residence.

Hall's boss at Bonneville County, Prosecutor Dane Watkins Jr., told the Post-Register that if Idaho Falls police find suspected wrongdoing, he is prepared to appoint a special prosecutor to examine the case because of a conflict of interest.

"We're confident that the (Idaho Falls police) will do a thorough investigation and we realize at this stage it's an allegation," Watkins told the newspaper.