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How the Legislature affected your life this session
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SB 641 prohibits you from dupli-
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cating or copying data from smart-
cial changes. Here’s a breakdown of
phones or other portable electronic
new laws that will touch plenty of
devices without a warrant or con-
Oregonians.
sent;
• If you are a gun owner, Senate
HB 2002 directs your agency
Bill 941 requires you to have a gun
to ensure it has policies and proce-
dealer run a criminal background
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check on a buyer in a private sale.
and HB 2571 requires your de-
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partment to establish policies and
procedures for keeping recordings
service. The law carved out some
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the same time making the record-
forcement, members of the U.S.
ings exempt from Oregon’s Public
military and close relatives of the
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seller.
requires disclosure.
• If you carry a gun, SB 173
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cealed permit, rather than your gun,
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ing up too much of the precious re-
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of residency in the state. The bill is conditions, assuming there is no oth- sell your goods out of your home di- which is in effect, removed the 400- and mills and develop markets.
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Brown.
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tation to provide the Secretary of fect April 22. And if you are serv- $20,000 or less. The bill goes into still calling them drones, though.)
State with electronic records to reg- ing in active-duty military while effect Jan. 1.
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state in the nation with such a law. driver’s license or permit without give vaccines to people 7 or older.
thorize you in 2016 to use accrued requires the state to post certain
• If you are a landscaper, SB sick leave or personal business economic development informa-
Brown, a Democrat, sponsored the a photograph if the Department of
bill when she was secretary of state, Transportation does not have an ac- 580 allows your contracting busi- leave rather than vacation.
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By PHIL WRIGHT
EO Media Group
Transportation district eyeing new
service options, solutions for future
Illuminating a life
Agency hopes to eventually build transit hub in Seaside
By KATHERINE
LACAZE
EO Media Group
SEASIDE — The Sunset
Empire Transportation Dis-
trict’s information kiosk in
Seaside, which opened in
May, may be a prelude to
more efforts by the public
transit agency to increase its
presence and services in the
city.
The kiosk is a good place
for people to get transit in-
formation, maps or tickets
and passes, but in recent
years, the district has rec-
ognized the need for a big-
ger transportation facility in
Seaside, said Jeff Hazen, the
district’s executive director.
A few years ago, the dis-
trict received a matching
grant from the Oregon De-
partment of Transportation’s
ConnectOregon
program
to build a facility in Sea-
side, but when the agency
couldn’t muster the neces-
sary matching funds, it had
to decline the grant and tem-
porarily abandon the project.
At that time, the project in-
volved a partnership with a
daycare and the South Coun-
ty Community Food Bank,
which has since moved.
More recently, the district
has considered other funding
options to build a Seaside
transit center but nothing
has materialized yet, and the
project is entirely dependent
on funding, Hazen said.
“It’s something I am go-
ing to keep my eye on,” he
said.
As opposed to the small
Seaside customer service
kiosk, located at the Sea-
side Factory Outlet Center
on North Roosevelt Drive,
the facility would be a one-
stop transit hub that would
have a lobby, restrooms and
more waiting areas, as well
as parking options for people
taking longer trips.
Additionally, Hazen said,
the district always is look-
ing for easier transitions
and connections between
the Cannon Beach bus and
the Highway 101 bus, which
currently connect behind
the Seaside Cinema on 12th
Avenue. Something on the
highway might provide bet-
ter access, he said.
Having that presence
would be good for South
County, Hazen said. “It
would be good for the dis-
trict, because we want to
be relevant throughout
the whole county,” he said.
Seaside is the source of
many visitors each year. Its
location on U.S. Highway
101 also makes it suscepti-
ble to congestion, a source
of frustration for those who
live and work in the city.
Public transportation can
help mitigate congestion and
increase accessibility for
Seaside riders, Hazen said.
“We can be part of that
solution,” he said. “If some
of those people weren’t driv-
ing those cars and were rid-
ing the bus, that’s less vehi-
cles on the highway.”
A Seaside transit facility
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Northwest Oregon’s region-
al transit system, North by
Northwest CONNECTOR.
The alliance consists of Sun-
set Empire Transportation
District, the Columbia County
Rider, the Tillamook County
Transportation District, Lin-
coln County Transit and Ben-
ton County Rural Transit.
“We’re all in this togeth-
er,” Hazen said. “We’re
not competing against each
other. We’re all providing
a service in rural America.
The more we can connect,
the better off we’re all go-
ing to be.”
Bus route and schedule
changes set to begin Aug. 1
The Daily Astorian
Sunset Empire Transpor-
tation District has announced
proposals for several route
and schedule changes which
are scheduled to begin Aug. 1.
These proposed changes
include: increasing the Route
101 service between Astoria
and Seaside during the peak
hours in the morning and late
afternoon by adding another
bus; and doubling service fre-
quency to every hour instead
of every two hours.
The Columbia Connector
Route will begin providing
service twice a day, seven
days a week to Rainier, where
riders will be able to transfer
to the Columbia County Rider
bus for service to Longview
and Kelso, Wash., St. Helens,
Scappoose and Portland.
A new Warrenton/Ham-
mond Route will begin pro-
viding service four times a day
between the U.S. Highway
101 shopping areas, Warren-
ton downtown and the Ham-
mond area. There will also be
a small change to the Cannon
Beach Route 20 schedule in
the morning.
“These route changes
are the result of our goals to
continually improve our ser-
vices and increase ridership
throughout the area”, said Jeff
Hazen, executive director of
the transportation district.
Hazen also said that feed-
back received from rider and
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that increased service was be-
ing asked for, and needed, to
meet riders’ scheduling needs,
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For information, and to
view the proposed route
schedules, go to www.ride-
thebus.org. Printed copies of
the proposed route schedule
changes will be on display
at the Astoria Transit Center,
900 Marine Drive, the Seaside
Transit Kiosk, 111 North Roo-
sevelt and on all buses. Public
input and comments concern-
ing the proposed changes will
be accepted until 5 p.m. July
22 and may be dropped off
at the Astoria Transit Center,
at the Seaside Transit Ki-
osk, mailed to 900 Marine
Drive, Astoria, OR. 97103 or
emailed to questions@ride-
thebus.org.
Public comments may also
be made at the next SETD
Board of Commissioners
meeting at 9 a.m. July 23 at
the Astoria Transit Center.
For information, contact
Mary Parker, executive as-
sistant, at 503-861-5370 or
mary@ridethebus.org
For online updates: www.dailyastorian.com
More than 200 people participated in the luminaria ceremony Saturday night
during the Relay for Life event at Astoria High School. The ceremony was dedi-
cated to Anita “Denise” Steiner, of Seaside, who died from cancer earlier this year.
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Court rules police need good
reason to ask about guns
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — The Ore-
gon Supreme Court says police
must have a good reason to ask
people they stop if they have a
weapon.
The high court last week
threw out an unlawful-weapon
conviction of a 19-year-old man
who was stopped for jaywalking
by an Oregon State Police troop-
er in Portland.
The trooper asked Joseph
Lucio Jimenez if he had any
weapons on him, and Jimenez
said he had a gun.
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asks pedestrians he stops if they
have weapons. The Supreme
Court, however, said police
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son that leads them to believe
they might be in danger.
The Oregonian reported that
the Oregon Court of Appeals re-
versed Jimenez’s conviction last
year, and the Supreme Court de-
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