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
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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.
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“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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