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Harderoad looks to renew position ■ A 15-year veteran as the district attorney for Lane County, Doug Harderoad decides to run again in 2000 By Sara Lieberth Oregon Daily Emerald Amidst a cadre of top-ranking state officials including Attorney General Hardy Myers and Gov. John Kitzhaber present to show their support, Lane County Dis trict Attorney Doug Harcleroad an nounced Wednesday his intent to run for reelection to the post he has held for more than 15 years. “I expect to campaign vigorous ly, explaining to the voters what the good people in the district’s at torney office do and how well they do it,” Harcleroad said. “My hope is that voters will re turn me as their district attorney for. another term in office. In re turn, I will work hard .... maxi mize the use of each citizen’s hard earned tax dollars as we spend it and provide leadership into the 21st century.” “I’m very honored to have this opportunity to endorse Mr. Har cleroad’s run,” Kitzhaber said. “He’s a remarkable criminal-jus tice professional and community • leader.” Adding that “Doug has been a leader in a number of areas,” Kitzhaber noted that chief among them, in his opinion, was the dis trict attorney’s commitment to im proving the disproportionate mi nority populations in Oregon’s criminal justice system. He cited the development of a police-stop video as an effort of the district at torney’s office to ensure traffic stops are performed on the basis of behavior, not race. Echoing his stated accomplish ments, Retired Superintendent of State Police LeRon Howland called Harcleroad’s record “ab solutely impeccable” on crime, in recognizing the special needs of crime victims and for his personal dedication to the community he serves. Prior to his election as dis trict attorney in 1985, Harcleroad was assistant district attorney of the county for 11 years. “He’s dedicated 26 years of his life to making Lane County a safe place to live and to raise children. He has a proven ability to get things done right and to do the right thing,” Howland said. The chosen site for the an nouncement, the Child Advocacy Center off Coburg Road in Eugene, it self played a starring role in the event as H a r - c 1 e r o a d seized the opportuni ty and called on his sup porters to approve a new, larger building for the burgeoning staff and clients that have outgrown their existing space. “The second day after I took of fice in 1985 I went before the board of commissioners and said we needed a victim-services pro gram,” Harcleroad said. He went on to enlist the strides his office has made since in ad - LANE CO. ELECTIONS dressing the complex issues of services to crime victims, includ ing expanded domestic violence programs and more than $14 mil lion collected for the county’s Family Law Division. “We are in a building which is more than walls and a roof,” he said. “It is a place where those chil dren who have been traumatized by sexual or physical abuse can in teract with criminal-justice profes sionals in a friendly environment which reduces their secondary traumatization created by the criminal-justice system.” Harcleroad earned his advanced law degree from the University of Oregon School of Law in 1973 af ter attending the University of Iowa for his undergraduate stud ies. He is currently an adjunct pro fessor at the law school, where he teaches an evening prosecution clinic. He and his wife, Jeanne, have two children and reside in Eu gene. The choice for district attor ney will be a considered on the primary ballot this May. ConCourt continued from page 1A “We’ve already found two ap pointees who will go before [Stu dent] Senate for approval proba bly next week,” she said. Although Gibons said it wasn’t likely the departures would stop the court’s ability to rule, he ad mitted that the departures could affect the upcoming ASUO elec tions, and a case still being delib erated. Gibons said many times the au thors of a ballot measure must bring multiple drafts to the court before it approves a final wording. There are more grievances filed around election time as well. “This could be sort of tricky or it could not,” Gibons said. “It defi nitely will be a time of transition.” The situation could become worse if the new justices are not appointed by Jan. 24, the first deadline for turning in ballot measures for the ASUO election to the court. Gibons and ASUO Elections Coordinator Ken Best said they were certain the execu tive and the senate will fill the po sitions before any major elections decisions have to be made. “We won’t need the court in the next week,” Best said. “I’m not feeling any urgency.” All three current justices are undergraduates. The ASUO Con stitution requires that at least two of the seats on the court be filled by second or third year law stu dents, Gibons said. Banfield’s resignation does leave the court unable to rule on a grievance filed in November by senior Scott Austin against the five summer student senators. Justice Elliot Dale removed him self from deliberation on the case due to a conflict of interest, leav ing only Gibons and Justice Daniel Vergamini to hear Austin’s grievance. Gibons said the court was close • to a decision before Banfield’s an nouncement but will wait until the new justices can review the case and offer their input as well. 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