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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2015
State legislators haven’t raised new gun initiatives
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
CAPITAL
State police received an email about
a post on an online forum, where some-
one wrote that he or she had attended
a Christian school, was bullied, and
wrote that “I’m gonna go get them and
I have weapons.” State police were able
to track down the author of the post the
same day. “That person was a felon, in
possession of ¿ rearms, and had the abil-
ity to carry out the threat,” Evans said.
The Colorado tip line has received ap-
proximately 380 warnings of possible
attacks on schools since it launched in
200, Evans said.
THE
SALEM — The mass shooting at
Umpqua Community College renewed
the national debate over gun control
and U.S. Senate Democrats have an-
nounced plans to close loopholes in the
federal background check system and
crack down on straw purchasing.
But in Oregon, lawmakers have yet
to propose any new measures aimed at
preventing gun violence.
“I think people are just coming out
of shock right now, and we did a big
push for the background checks in the
2015 session,” said state Senate Major-
ity Leader Ginny Burdick, D-Portland.
“I just need to have some conversations
with people ... my caucus members and
people on the other side of the aisle, to
see if there’s a pathway for something
to happen in 2016. It’s a short session.
It’s not meant to be a major policy issue
session.”
The Legislature has already closed
some of the background check loop-
holes that remain at the federal level.
Earlier this year, legislators passed a
law that requires background checks
for nearly all private ¿ rearm transfers.
The state also began last year investi-
gating people who failed background
checks when they attempted to buy
weapons at gun shows and licensed
dealers. That policy change came at the
request of Senate Minority Leader Sen.
Ted Ferrioli, R-John Day, after Ferrioli
learned the Oregon State Police had not
been investigating the incidents.
It is illegal in Oregon for someone
prohibited from purchasing a ¿ rearm to
attempt to purchase one.
BUREAU
Strategy unfolding
Some of the state’s efforts to prevent
shootings, or improve the response, are
still unfolding.
The day before the Umpqua Com-
munity College shooting, Oregon State
Police Superintendent Richard Evans
gave an update to state lawmakers on
what Evans said was “my passion,
school safety.”
Evans is part of a 1-member state
task force on school safety, which law-
makers created in 201 in response to
the December 2012 shootings at Clack-
amas Town Center and Sandy Hook
Elementary School in Newtown, Con-
necticut.
A couple of months after the bill
to create the task force became law,
there was another shooting in Or-
egon, at Reynolds High School in
Troutdale.
Evans told lawmakers the top prior-
ity for the task force is to create a tip
line where people can report threats of
school shootings, plus a broad range of
other issues including bullying, poten-
tial suicides and abuse.
“What we’ve learned in our research
is 81 percent of the time, somebody else
knew that that school shooting was go-
ing to occur,” Evans said. “And what
we’re ¿ nding is that there’s no way, re-
ally, in Oregon to report that.”
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Mike Henneke/The News-Review
Gov. Kate Brown, right, hugs Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy Rick
Held on Monday during a tour of Umpqua Community College in
Roseburg. Monday was the first day back to campus for students
since the deadliest shooting in state history.
School in Spring¿ eld, but Evans said
the tip line — which was housed at the
Oregon Department of Justice — was
eliminated due to budget cuts.
The new tip line might be similar to
a Colorado system that allows people to
report concerns online, over the phone
Revive a tip line
Oregon created a tip line in 1998
after the shooting at Thurston High
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and via text. A tip line would provide
a single place for people to report con-
cerns.
Evans said a recent email to state
police provided an example of the type
of concern that could be handled in a
more centralized manner at a tip line.
The school safety task force is also
working on initiatives to create a secure
database with maps of schools around
the state that law enforcement and oth-
er ¿ rst responders can access if there is
an active shooter or other incident, and
a statewide system to identify and re-
spond to students who threaten to com-
mit violence against others. The threat
assessment system could be based on
a Marion County program that Evans
described as a national model.
One impediment to launch the tip
line could be a lack of money, and state
Rep. Jeff Barker, D-Aloha, said this
week that if necessary, he will propose
legislation next year to pay for it. Bark-
er, a retired Portland police lieutenant
and member of the school safety task
force, said a tip line might help law en-
forcement “head off a lot of things.”
“I’m trying to get this thing re-
solved before we get another disas-
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