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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2016 Staffer sues Rosenblum, key employees for racial profiling Civil rights director files claim By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau The Oregon Department of Justice’s civil rights direc- tor is suing Attorney Gen- eral Ellen Rosenblum and other department employees for subjecting him to racial profiling. In a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday, Erious Johnson alleges special agents identi- fied him as a “threat to police” based on a threat assessment performed with a software program that examined social media postings. In addition to Rosenblum, the suit names as defendants Deputy Attorney General Frederick Boss, Chief Coun- sel Darin Tweedt, Special Agent in Charge David Kirby and Special Agent James Williams. The lawsuit claims that in September 2015 Wil- liams used a software pro- gram called Digital Stake- out to search terms, including the Twitter hashtag, “#black- livesmatter,” in the Salem area. That search produced an image of Johnson and prompted Williams to down- load Johnson’s entire Twit- ter account, according to the lawsuit. A post on Johnson’s account containing lyrics to a rap song by Public Enemy and an image of the group’s logo led Williams to believe Johnson presented a threat to police, the lawsuit states. Williams shared his con- cerns with Kirby, who was his supervisor. Kirby consulted Tweedt, who recommended a written assessment. Boss approved the written assess- ment. After Williams pre- pared the assessment, he sub- mitted it to the department’s counsel for review. Johnson alleges that inves- tigators never attempted to contact him or independently verify information, which Pamplin Media Group The civil rights director of the Oregon Department of Justice has sued Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and other members of the department for subjecting him to racial profiling. was a violation of department policy. He didn’t learn of the assessment until about two weeks after Boss and Rosen- blum received the report. According to the suit, Wil- liams had no reasonable sus- picion of a crime, and was not involved in a criminal investi- gation when he performed the original assessment. Johnson claims the defen- More Pacific Coast hatchery salmon could receive protections Genetically similar to their wild cousins By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press BOISE, Idaho — Federal authorities want to add more hatchery-raised fish to the 28 Pacific Coast salmon and steelhead stocks listed under the Endangered Species Act. The National Marine Fish- eries Service in a document made public last week said 23 hatchery programs could produce fish genetically sim- ilar to their wild but strug- gling cousins and should have the option of receiving federal protections. The agency recently com- pleted a five-year review required for listed species and plans no changes to the threat- ened or endangered status for the salmon and steelhead pop- ulations found in California, Oregon, Washington state and Idaho. The review included 330 hatchery programs. About half of those are already involved in boosting listed salmon and steelhead popu- lations. Other hatchery pro- grams are intended to pro- duce large numbers of fish for anglers. The document proposes eliminating five of the hatch- ery programs from Endan- gered Species Act listings, meaning there’s a net increase of 18 programs. The 23 proposed pro- grams are mostly in Oregon and Washington, but there are some in Idaho and one in Cal- ifornia that involves the Liv- ingston Stone National Fish Hatchery and its efforts with winter-run Chinook salmon in the Sacramento River. 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N orth w es t H a rdw oods • Lon gview , W A H AN A D LLOWEEN DA R N T C Y E COSTUME PA “T HEORY O F R ELATIVITY ” Portland Classic R&R Band 9pm-? By KEITH RIDLER Associated Press Contact: Steve Axtell • 360-430-0885 or John Anderson • 360-269-2500 Seaside American Legion T.O.R. Feds release recovery plan for Snake River salmon, steelhead Alder and Maple Saw Logs & Standing Timber dailyastorian.com 1315 Broadway Seaside it’s important for all of us to read the notice and under- stand it fully.” Conservation groups, in general, are concerned that an overreliance on hatchery fish could cause further declines in wild fish runs and additional degradation to the watersheds wild fish need to survive. The watersheds them- selves include dams needed to produce energy, control floods and provide irrigation. Other activities such as tim- ber harvest and road construc- tion can also cause problems for migrating salmon, Jones said, and the hatcheries are intended to mitigate for those losses. Salmon and steelhead runs are a fraction of what they were before modern settle- ment. Of the salmon and steel- head that now return, experts say, about 70 to 90 percent originated in hatcheries. Public comments on the federal proposal are being taken through Dec. 20. W A NTED GO ONLINE Saturday th October 29 producing fish more able to survive in the wild. “There’s been considerable research on this and we gener- ally understand that hatchery fish do not survive in the wild as well as wild fish,” said Rob Jones of the National Marine Fisheries Service. “But we have gotten much better at understanding how to narrow that gap and produce hatchery fish that have a better and bet- ter chance at surviving in the wild.” Several watchdog envi- ronmental groups involved with salmon and steelhead and watershed ecosystems declined to immediately com- ment, citing the complexity of the federal proposal. But Sara LaBorde, execu- tive vice president of the Wild Salmon Center, gave an initial assessment. “It seems like some of this language is housekeeping and some of it may have long term policy implications,” she said in a statement. “At this point, dants violated his First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. He seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages and attorney’s fees. The Attorney Gener- al’s Office issued a state- ment Wednesday noting that Rosenblum has replaced staff members involved in the digi- tal search of Johnson’s tweets and taken steps to help pre- vent racial profiling. She fired Williams last summer and demoted Tweedt in January. Kirby left his post in May to become operations integrity director of Privateer Holdings in Seattle, according to his LinkedIn page. Department of Jus- tice employees also will be required to undergo cultural competency and implicit bias training, beginning next month, said Kristina Edmundson, a department spokeswoman. 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