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Bill tells schools about offenders
Districts would be told
within 72 hours if youth
offenders move to area
By Amy Jennaro
Oregon Daily Emerald
In response to the national rise
in juvenile crime in the past 15
years, the Oregon House of Rep
resentatives is taking action.
House Bill 3158, passed May
12, would require school districts
to be notified within 72 hours if a
youth offender moved into their
school district. The bill next
moves to the senate, which has
yet to set a date to discuss the
bill.
The impetus for the bill came
from complaints from schools
that in many cases were not noti
fied for up to three months about
the presence of a youth offender
in their schools, said Lois Ander
son, legislative assistant to Rep.
Vic Backlund, R-Keizer, author of
the bill.
Larry Badger, communications
director of the House Majority
Office, said the bill’s 72-hour re
quirement would only apply to
youth who have been convicted
of drug use or possession of a
firearm. For all other crimes, the
school district would have to ask
for information on the youth of
fender’s criminal history, Badger
said.
The notification requirement
“simply says to the schools that
there is a person on probation
and they can do what they
want with that information,”
he said.
Badger said the information
enables schools to direct more at
tention to troubled youths, in
cluding providing counseling
services or other forms of inter
vention.
“The [schools] want the infor
mation,” she said. “The stakes
are a lot higher now,” she
added, referring to the school
shooting at Columbine High
School in Littleton, Colo., on
April 20.
Anderson said the bill was first
proposed in late January and re
ceived the full support of the
Oregon House of Representa
tives, several school districts and
the Oregon Youth Authority, an
agency that handles youth of
fenders’ cases.
If the bill passes, it will be im
plemented in 90 days on a
statewide basis.
According to Badger, the 72
hour requirement is already pre
sent in some schools around the
state, but he said the requirement
is not implemented in all
schools.
“We want uniform notification
from all around the state,” he
said.
Anderson said schools already
are required to be notified if a
youth offender is in their district.
“This just puts a time limit on
it,” she said.
Badger said he believes
schools will find ways for the bill
to benefit the most people.
“I am sure schools will find a
way to work with the youth of
fender’s rights while still pro
tecting the safety of other stu
dents,” he said. “Schools have
the right to know who is in their
school.”
Yugoslavia says it is ready to ‘cut a deal’
By Lanmce Hughes
The Associated Press
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia — Pro
claiming moral victory, a senior
Yugoslav official said Tuesday that
Belgrade is ready to “cut a deal” on
Kosovo despite unspecified “reser
vations” about the formula put for
ward by the United States and its
major European partners.
Two Serb prisoners of war re
leased by the United States, mean
while, were handed back to Yu
goslavia in drizzling weather at a
Hungarian border post.
U.S. officials said the return was
not a payback for Belgrade’s re
lease of three captured American
soldiers this month but done in
the hope that Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic would swiftly
release any NATO forces taken
prisoner in the future.
In the meantime, NATO re
newed its attacks on Yugoslavia in
words and bombs.
Alliance missiles hit at least four
cities in raids that Yugoslav media
said killed one woman and injured
12. Six bombs slammed into
Mount Fruska Gora, near Novi Sad,
Yugoslavia s second-largest city.
At NATO headquarters in Brus
sels, Belgium, the alliance accused
Serb forces of trying to cover up ev
idence of massacres of ethnic Al
banians in Kosovo by ordering vil
lagers to dig up mass graves and
bury the bodies separately. David
Scheffer, a U.S. ambassador-at
large for war crimes, also said there
is increasing evidence that Serbs
have used ethnic Albanians during
the conflict as human shields.
In Belgrade, Foreign Ministry
spokesman Nebojsa Vujovic said
his country was ready for a deal to
end the nearly 2-month-old
NATO campaign as long as its
“territorial integrity” is preserved
— meaning no independence for
Kosovo, a province of Yu
goslavia’s Serb republic.
“How could a nation of 11 mil
lion be a loser when the mightiest,
the most developed countries in
the world and the mightiest mili
tary alliance, is conducting a high
tech war for almost two months
against a small nation?” declared
Vujovic. “And who is the moral
victor standing by against this
powerful aggression?
Pressed by reporters, Vujovic
added, “So, yes, we are ready to
cut a deal based on the preserva
tion of the territorial integrity and
sovereignty of the Federal Repub
lic of Yugoslavia and based on our
vital state interests.”
But Vujovic did not explicitly
say Belgrade was ready to allow an
armed military force that would
include NATO troops to enter the
country to police the deal — a key
stumbling block to any agreement.
He described the proposal, put
forward two weeks ago by foreign
ministers of the world’s seven
leading industrial countries and
Russia, as “an element of a peace
plan and we are open to that in
spite of some reservations.”
His comments added impetus
to a flurry of diplomacy aimed at
ending the Balkan crisis and in
volving senior officials from the
United States, Russia, Finland and
European leaders trying to solve
the Kosovo crisis.
Among other things, the G-8
plan calls for an international secu
rity presence in Kosovo.
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