THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
NORTH COAST
Legal weed in Seaside: Councilors
to ‘watch what happens’ with law
city’s regulatory policy.
Councilors, several of
whom had recently returned
SEASIDE — The Seaside from the League of Oregon Cit-
City Council decided they can’t ies in Bend, showed little appe-
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recreational marijuana.
“In Bend and other cities
“You passed an ordinance they are not doing any other
that allows medical marijuana action,” City Councilor Randy
dispensaries,” City Manager Frank said. “It would actually
Mark Winstanley said at Mon- take us effort to say ‘no.’”
day night’s council meeting.
Currently, Seaside prohibits
“The state of Oregon has al- the sale of medical marijuana in
lowed recreational sales to be the city’s downtown core. Can-
sold Oct. 1 from medical mar- nabis dispensaries are subject to
ijuana dispensaries. Does the state rules.
city want to take action to stop
City Councilor Dana Phil-
that, or do you simply want to lips, who also attended the
stand back and let that go into League of Oregon Cities
place?”
event, said she was concerned
“We could either stop it that the city needed to take
right now, or see how it evolves action to prohibit dispensary
in the next 14, 15, 16 months,” zoning restrictions.
City Attorney Dan Van Thiel
“I want to make sure med-
said.
ical and recreational are not
By the end of the night, available in the downtown city
councilors chose the latter.
core,” Phillips said. “The med-
ical is but we haven’t talked
Approval and review
about the recreational part.”
Last week, Seaside Planning
City Councilor Tita Monte-
Director Kevin Cupples ap- ro said she was distressed by
proved the sale of recreational the state’s rule changes, lack of
cannabis from licensed medical organization and staff, and the
dispensaries, including High- potential for future rule changes
way 420 and Cannabis Nation. that could limit local rule-mak-
In granting the licenses, ing. “I want us to enact some-
Cupples asked for “any direc- thing that says we will not have
tion from the council” in the recreational cannabis in our
By R.J. MARX
The Daily Astorian
town until everything is pulled
together in January 2017,” she
said.
Facing ‘the inevitable’
Councilors Jay Barber, Don
Johnson and Seth Morrisey
were inclined to let the law take
its course.
“It appears to me that we’ve
been preempted by the state in
terms of their action,” Barber
said. “I’m thinking we use the
next 15 months as a period of
work to determine what we
want to do in terms of where
we want recreational marijuana
to be sold, what we can do to
limit that. Until then I wonder if
we really have the right or priv-
ilege to say ‘no.’”
“I look at the inevitable,”
Johnson said. “It’s time for
us to let the marijuana issue
go and see how it develops.
If it becomes an issue, we can
look again at it at a later date.
The sale of recreational mar-
ijuana is coming. It’s starting
Oct. 1.”
While councilors acknowl-
edged they “didn’t like the pro-
cess,” they agreed that the law
had passed overwhelmingly at
the city and state level.
“There’s not a consenus, so
let’s move on to the next item,”
Mayor Don Larson said.
Warrenton city website hacked
No personal information was
compromised, police chief says
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700 employees at the com- mate concerns that this round the new labor agreement
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a new four-year labor agree- well,” Jon Geenan, vice presi- improved income and bene-
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employer in Clatsop Coun-
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By EDWARD STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
W A NTED
The FBI’s crime statistics
for 2014 show a decrease in
most Clatsop County cities.
However, local law en-
forcement says the numbers
do not tell the whole story.
“Certainly it’s good for
us to take a look at the num-
bers, but numbers can be
misleading,” Astoria Police
Deputy Chief Eric Halver-
son said.
The statistics only focus
on violent crimes — murder,
rape, robbery and aggravat-
ed assault — and property
crimes — burglary, thefts,
vehicle theft and arson.
In Astoria, violent
crimes decreased from 33 in
2013 to 25 last year. Prop-
erty crimes in Astoria also
dropped from 445 in 2013
to 376 last year.
Warrenton only reported
one violent crime in 2012,
but none in 2013 or 2014.
Property crimes in Warren-
ton slightly decreased from
167 in 2013 to 166 last year.
“The numbers are down.
That is great. Our job is to
work ourselves out of a job.
We try to control those num-
bers as much as possible
through our efforts,” Halv-
erson said. “I don’t get too
excited. We are not going to
be getting complacent. You
have to evaluate what the
numbers mean.”
Halverson said the FBI’s
statistics do not include be-
havioral issues such as disor-
derly conduct arrests, which
often occur in Astoria.
The reported numbers
also do not provide addi-
tional details. For a burglary,
the report does not include
the type of building, loca-
tion in the city or how the
entry happened.
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FBI are much more detailed
than what is presented in the
annual reports.
Overall, Astoria Police
responded to 15,300 calls
for service in 2014. The FBI
report only shows 401 cases.
Within its own monthly re-
ports, Astoria Police are seeing
calls for service increase.
Astoria Police Chief Brad
Johnston presented a report to
the City Council in September
that highlighted calls received
so far in 2015.
Year to date, Astoria Police
responded to 363 disorderly
conduct calls, 250 suspicious
circumstances, 197 property
crimes, 163 motor vehicle ac-
cidents, 156 animal complaints
and 79 trespass complaints.
“It would be interesting to
see what next year’s (FBI num-
bers) look like. It’s been one of
the busiest years I can recall,”
Halverson said.
In South County, violent
and property crimes increased
mostly due to a busy year in
Cannon Beach.
Cannon Beach recorded
six violent crimes in 2014 — a
murder, rape, robbery and three
aggravated assaults. The city of
about 1,700 people had one vi-
olent crime last year.
The murder relates to Jessi-
ca Smith, the mother accused of
killing one daughter and injur-
ing another in July 2014.
Property crimes in Cannon
Beach shot up to 55 last year
from 38 in 2013.
Seaside did not submit sta-
tistics for the report in 2014.
The city had a total of eight vi-
olent crimes and 554 property
crimes in 2013.
Gearhart had one violent
crime and 14 property crimes
in 2014, an increase in both cat-
egories.
The annual Crime in the
United States report is com-
piled by voluntary information
from law enforcement agencies
across the country. The FBI’s
Uniform Crime Reporting Pro-
gram collects the data from
more than 18,000 law enforce-
ment agencies for the report,
which has been produced since
1930.
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By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
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WARRENTON — The city
of Warrenton’s website was hi-
jacked Saturday morning, but
the intrusion did not compro-
mise the personal information
of staff, employees, vendors,
businesses or customers, ac-
cording to Police Chief Matt
Workman.
When the hack was dis-
covered, the main webpage
had been replaced by a single
image of what appeared to be
graves with wooden cross-
es and a derogatory message
about the United States’ pres-
ence in Iraq, accompanied by a
song that would play in a for-
eign language.
The city’s information
FBI statistics show less
crime in Clatsop County
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The Daily Astorian
technology provider advised
that the website is hosted by
a third-party vendor and is
not connected to any of the
city servers, where customer
information is stored. The pro-
vider contacted the third-party
host and believes the webpage
was hijacked through a FTP
site where city staff uploads
information and news to the
website.
All access credentials have
been changed to prevent fur-
ther intrusion.
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