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“There are a lot of
questions that need to be
answered, like when do
we turn them on?” Bal-
dridge said.
He said the county
must weigh the privacy of
the community in circum-
stances when police are
sent into resident’s homes
for an investigation, and
whether that data could
be provided to the District
Attorney in the event of
an investigation.
“What is the evidentia-
ry factor to that? Could
that be provided to the DA
or defense attorney?,”
Marion County Undershe-
riff Troy Clausen said. “
We don’t necessarily have
all the answers to that
yet.”
Marion County depu-
ties already have static
mounted dash cams on
their patrol vehicles,
which record a fair
amount of law enforce-
ment encounters. Clausen
said the county will re-
view its use of dash cams
to see if a similar frame-
work could be used for
body cams.
“Now I’m wearing this
recording device and so
these are all questions
that we have to ask and
that we have to make sure
that we’re consistent in
our practice,” Baldridge
said. “When do we turn
them on, and when do we
turn them off?”
Clausen said it could
take from 90 to 120 days
for the county to take a
look at policies adopted at
neighboring law enforce-
ment’s body camera pro-
grams, such as Stayton,
Aumsville, Turner and
Water
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lems long before the ef-
fluent releases in 2014.
In fact, the greatest
threat to Lower Silver
Creek appears to be inva-
sive plants choking out
trees along the stream
bank, according to a study
done by the Marion Coun-
ty Soil and Water Conser-
vation District in 2013.
Streamside trees are
needed to stabilize the
bank and keep water tem-
perature down.
“The most noxious,
acute issue is the clematis
and English ivy. The vines
are growing over the old
cottonwood trees … those
trees will eventually die,”
said Anna Rankin, Pud-
ding River Watershed
Council coordinator.
The council – the local
pipeline for environmen-
tal grant dollars – hasn’t
had any money to throw at
the problem until now. It
lost its funding in 2011, af-
ter its board shrunk to two
members, and it hasn’t
done any new projects at
Rock, Butte, Abiqua, Sil-
ver or Drift creeks or the
Pudding River for a dec-
ade, Rankin said.
Now led by eight board
members and armed with
information from the 2013
survey and a 2014 fish
study of the Pudding Riv-
er Basin, the council is
ready to coordinate a pro-
ject at Lower Silver
Creek. In fact, Rankin
said she and an intern are
writing a proposal that
could use the city’s
$15,520 contribution to the
creek project to secure up
to $25,000 more from the
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Department body camera in Stayton on Thursday. The Marion
County Sheriff’s Office just received a grant from the
Department of Justice for body cams and training.
Eugene police depart-
ments.
“We’re going to ask our
deputies to wear these
cameras, which the over-
whelming majority want
to wear them and they see
them as a tool just as
much for themselves as
they are for the public,”
Clausen said. “These both
can help and potentially
bring to light certain is-
sues that law enforce-
ment and the public needs
to be aware of.”
Clausen said although
law enforcement does its
best to do everything
right, there are times
where the “human side”
can come out during a
traffic stop or encounter.
“There will be times
where we look at those
body camera videos and
ask ourselves, ‘What
could we have done bet-
ter?’ “ Clausen said.
Baldridge said the
heart of this program fo-
cuses on transparency of
law enforcement married
with public safety, a bal-
ance he said is essential in
community policing.
“We build transparen-
cy by creating personal
relationships with com-
munity leaders, and this is
another opportunity to
take transparency to a
new level,” Baldridge
said.
Clausen said the coun-
ty will issue a request for
proposal to look at differ-
ent body camera vendors.
Once the county re-
ceives the grant, it will
meet with its community
stakeholders to discuss an
implementation plan.
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total of $40,000.
“There are all these
different grants. It’s like a
quilt; you have to patch
things together,” she said.
As proposed, the Low-
er Silver Creek restora-
tion project will begin at
the 1 ⁄ 2 -mile-long “reach,”
or piece of streamside
property owned by the
city at the wastewater
treatment plant. Starting
next summer, workers
will tear out invasive spe-
cies, plant native trees
and do erosion control.
If the grant is secured,
the watershed council can
approach other property
owners along the creek
and extend the project
west.
“A journey of a thou-
sand miles begins with a
single step,” Rankin said.
“That’s where it comes
down to vision, not just
seeing how thing are right
now, but seeing how
things will be in the future
if you put the right steps
in place.”
The council’s vision for
a healthy Silver Creek is a
shaded waterway with in-
tact banks and plenty of
“meander bends” and rip-
rap to slow water flow.
The council will submit its
plans and its grant re-
quest to the state by the
end of October. Winners
will be notified next April,
and work will begin next
spring.
In the end, Silverton
taxpayers will pay very
little of city’s $15,520 con-
tribution to the project or
the $3,880 remaining fine
to the state. That’s be-
cause the food processors
that sent the high-
strength industrial waste
to the treatment plant
back in 2014 have already
agreed to pay $16,818 for
the problem.
“Local industries are
not admitting fault, but
they agreed to help offset
the full impact of the civil
penalty,” Starner said.
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