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Horton
pledges
changes
in LINT
By JOSHUA MARQUIS
Of the Emerald
Lane County District Attorney J. Pat Horton
reiterated campaign pledges to re-vamp the Lane
Inter-Agency Narcitotics Team (LINT) at a
Tuesday night meeting of the Citizens Advisory
Committee for Criminal Justice Planning.
The committee is a lay advisory panel to the
Lane Council of Governments and recommends
funding programs for area law enforcement
agencies.
Horton told the group he had made substantial
changes in the staff of LINT in keeping with the
changes he had proposed during his campaign.
Replacing Richard Frambes, a former Oregon
State Police officer, as co-ordinating investigaor
for LINT is James Sharpe, previously a sergeant
with the Eugene Police Department. In addition
Horton named a new project director for the LINT
team, deputy district attorney Morris Merten.
Merten was formerly an assistant United States
Attorney, specializing in organized crime
prosecution.
Horton explained it “has taken government a
long time to realize that the team, or task-force
method is the best way to fight organized crime or
narcotics traffic,” and that LINT serves a valuable
function in this regard.
Horton stressed that with limited manpower
and resources, “we are going away from the
practice of investigating casual or incidental users
of marijuana and aiming towards drug
wholesalers.” The D.A. commented that “we must
necessarily separate marijuana from other nar
cotics in order todeal effectively with the problem.”
Horton emphasized that the district attorney’s
office was going to leave most marijuana offenses
and personal possission cases to the individual Lane
County law enforcement agencies to pursue on their
own. “We just have to ignore it, for the most part,”
he said.
Responding to questions as to the structure and
control of LINT, Horton explained that the team is
made up of at least one member of each con
tributing agency, which include the Eugene, Cot
tage Grove and Springfield Police, the Oregon State
Police and the sheriff’s office.
The team acts under the co-ordination of an
investigator from the D.A.’s office. “Since the
district attorney’s offive is not in the business of
investigation, per se, it is easier for us to co
ordinate the team," explained the district attorney.
LINT itself is in turn audited by a board of
directors, made up of the chiefs of police of par
ticipating departments, the sheriff, the local
commander of the state police and the district at
torney.
Horton termed the. progress report issued by
LINT last year, which listed seizure of ap
proximately 140 pounds of marijuana and about a
gram of heroin, as “disappointing” considered the
time put in. Horton indicated he was pleased with
the efforts of the team under his administration,
referring specifically to the recent arrest of a
Eugene man for possession about $1000 worth of
heroin.
Commenting on the use of the mis-demer.ant
citation, Horton explained provisions of Oregon law
allow police agencies to issue citations for
misdemeanors and certain other crimes which can
be considered misdemeanors (such as possession of
less than an ounce of marijuana).
Horton stressed that the citations are issued on
the basis of whether the defendant is likely to show
up in court or not. The usual standards for such a
determination are whether the person lives in
Eugene, whether the person is a student or works
locally. The advantage of the citation system, says
Horton, is that it allows a little more flexibility in
the law. “Not everybody charged need be taken to
jail,” said the district attorney.
Commenting on the prosecution of drunk
driving cases, Horton observed that in the past
some 90 per cent of all drunk driving cases wej^
reduced to charges like careless driving and
violators fined. Horton said he “had instructed nlT^
staff” to start prosecuting drunk driving cases.”
For PE activities
Style of sweat suits to be same
All students wanting to jog,
exercise, or engage in athletics
will wear the same type of sweat
gear for extra-class activities
within a few years, according to
Vernon Sprague, head of the
Physical Education department.
Sprague explained Monday the
unavailability of sweat clothes
for two women who recently
wanted to use the zippered sweat
shirts but were denied their use.
“There are quite a number of
the zippered sweat shirts in the
department now, but these are on
a high priority for classes,”
Sprague said Monday. “The rest
are checked out to students at
registration time for the whole
quarter.”
“The more expensive sweat
shirts with the zippered front, the
ones the women students like to
wear, cost two to three times as
much as the others, and it just
ins’t worth that much difference
in price,” Sprague said.
“We are going to phase out the
zippered sweat-suits com
pletely,” Sprague said.
“Everybody will wear the same
type within a few years.”
Sprague added that all of the
available zippered gym suits are
in use by those in classes, and
that women students who
currently wish to use the zippered
suits will have to use the regular
less expensive sweat clothes.
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“Five or six years ago, the
prices for the two types of sweat
gear were about the same, but in
recent years, the ones with the
zippers in the front have become
much more expensive,” Sprague
said.
Using the department’s sweat
clothes for recreational purposes
is a popular past-time for
students on campus. The
facilities for storing and using
these clothes and athletic
equipment make these activities
attractive, he said.
“We allow the students to
check out and use these clothes,
we give them storage facilities,
let them use the baskets, and
lockers; we provide locks
them, launder the clothers fi®;
them when they need it, I just
don’t think you could find better
services than that anywhere,’’
Sprague said.
Johnson asks reforms
in state’s penal system
Oregon Attorney General Lee Johnson emphasized the need for an
improved criminal corrections system in a discussion with a
University political science class Tuesday night.
The present ratio of one probation officer for every 100 parolees
“is absurd,” Johnson said. He believed the proper ratio should be one
probation officer for every 35 parolees.
“We need more correctional facilities of a community type,”
Johnson stated.
He said 32 per cent of the funds from the Law Enforcement
Assistance Act in Oregon go towards corrections. He hoped to
“enlarge the piece of pie corrections is getting.”
The committee that apportions the funds has designed a
rehabilitation and treatment program that Johnson described as “a
Cadillac.”
Johnson also gave his support to an unqualified newsman’s shield
law. Although he originally believed that “every citizen has a duty to
testify about what he knows,” he had changed his mind recently.
“It’s more important to have the free flow of information,”
Johnson said.
Although the unqualified newsman’s shield law presently before
the Oregon legislature “does leave a chance for abuse,” Johnson
supported it.
Johnson also said he had “no particular objection” to Lane County
District Attorney J. Pat Horton’s practice of only giving citations for
the casual use of marijuana.
He believed the “drug problem is overwhelming agencies,
anyway,” so they concentrated on the “easy arrest.”
“I’m not to the point of legalizing marijuana,” Johnson added.
Johnson also indicated he did not approve of the initiative passed
in Washington last fall requiring financial disclosures by lobbyists. He
said that during his time as a representative he knew of no legislator
who had been “paid off.”