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This will allow another person to read it and/or be easily picked up for recycling Access to DMV records may change ■ BILL: A panel discussed possible effects of the Boxer Amendment on individual rights of privacy and ability to get public information By Jennifer Carter Managing Editor Writing handicap-parking vio lators. Using the vehicle identifi cation number to check out the history of a used car. These are just two ways Depart ment of Motor Vehicle records are used by people every day. By next fall, these uses could stop. An amendment to the Federal Crime Bill called the Driver’s Pri vacy Protection Act of 1994, or the Boxer Amendment, would pro hibit DMV offices from releasing records after Sept. 13,1997. Indi vidual states, however, can keep records open if they pass opt-out laws by September. These laws could allow individual drivers to decide whether their information should be accessible like other public records. One catalyst for the drafting of the Boxer Amendment was the 1989 murder of actress Rebecca Schaefer, who starred on “My Sis ter Sam. ” Schaefer’s murderer was able to find her home with the help of DMV records, which were obtained through a private investi gator. An Oregon journalist, supporter of battered women, legislative aide and media advocate voiced their concerns over how the Boxer Amendment could affect people’s right to privacy and right to access public information Monday night during a panel discussion in Law School Room 129. Gai! Ryder, the director of gov ernment affairs for the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Associa tion, said her organization has cre ated an opt-out bill to be intro duced in the state’s next legislative session. The proposed bill co-.tains language that would MATHEW STIFFLER/Emerald Moderator Tim Gleason (left), Rebecca Force, Gall Ryder and John Hen rikson were members of a panel Monday that discussed public accessi bility to Department of Motor Vehicle records. allow individuals to limit disclo sure of DMV records to members of media, businesses and people with interests pertaining to areas such as public safety and dissemi nation of information. She said the passage of an opt out bill will be difficult because of conflicting interpretations of pri vacy and the pubic interest. Joan Patrick, the community ed ucator for Womenspace, an orga nization that assists battered women, said her organization is concerned about how access to records can affect people’s safety. “We’re concerned about men out there, batterers, who are killing women,” she said. “We’re talking about records going under ground — we have to face the fact that women are going under ground.” Patrick said she thinks it is im portant for the public to have ac cess to records, but also feels peo ple should have the option to maintain privacy if they feel they are at risk of harm. John Henrikson, a reporter for the Salem Statesman Journal, said he is concerned people will perceive themselves as being safer than they actually are if DMV records become private. He said he is concerned restrictions on DMV records will lead to restric tions on other public records. He said while the safety issue is seri ous, people also need to examine what causes crime. “People kill people; public records don’t kill people,” he said. Rebecca Force, a former news director for KEZI and a legislative aide for Rep. Cynthia Wooten, said the growing immediacy of access to information — and not the material itself—.through tech nology like the Internet is what is causing people to be concerned about privacy. “it’s the speed at which materi al is now available that is so frightening,” she said. Many students will be heading for home to spend the Thanksgiv ing Holiday away from the Uni versity, but for those who are not leaving during the holiday, the residence halls will be open. Food service for those days will be closed, however, for the entire holiday. The last meal to be COMMUNITY ■v ;r- $ ' * y* w/ty'tyfyfrpU/fa}* § .'liHIV served will be dinner on Wednes day, Nov. 27. Food service in the residence halls will resume with breakfast on Monday, Dec. 2. The Knight Library will be clos ing at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 27 and will remained closed on Thanksgiving day. The library will reopen for regular hours on Friday, Nov. 29. — compiled by Tom Potter Freshman Seminars WINTER 1997 PREFIX PS 199 ENG 199 BI 199 BA 199 PPPM 199 1NTL 199 HC 199 CPSY 199 EDPM 199 BI 199 INTL199 EDUC 199 AAD199 SOC 199 EDPM 199 TITLE Theories of Leadership Science Fiction: A New Mythology? Plagues: The Past, Present, and Future of Infectious Diseases Entrepreneurs: For Real? Creating Connection, Becoming Community Perceiving Asia and Asian Perceptions of the West The Nonverbal and Verbal Dimensions of Building Community Homosexuality in the '90s: Developmental and Societal Issues Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Classroom Cascadia Bioregion: Biological and Cultural Foundations Indigenous America: Cultural Survival Helping Families and Children: Exploring the Human Services Community Talk about Art Ecology and Democracy: The Struggle for Environmental Justice Building Community Inside and Out For more information, see pages 107-8 in the winter UO Schedule of Classes. FRESHMAN SEMINARS 372 Oregon Hall • University of Oregon • 346-1136 An eqiial-apfvrtHiiity, affirmative actum iiisIiIuIhhi nmnnlled la cultural diversity and nmtpluna with the Aniencan> with Debilities Act