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2A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2018 A regional jail has released inmates to save space for ICE detainees Hate crimes on the rise in Oregon Critics have sued the jail Every year, the FBI releases national hate crime statistics. According to that data, hate crimes in Oregon are up by 40 percent from 2016 to 2017. But there are limits to the data. Of the 214 Oregon agen- cies that participate in the FBI’s hate crime tracking pro- gram, just 29 agencies submit- ted incident reports for 2017. And it’s widely understood that hate crimes go underre- ported nationwide. Oregon is no exception. “The data is grossly incom- plete and inaccurate,” said Arjun Singh Sethi, a law pro- fessor at Vanderbilt University and editor of American Hate: Survivors Speak Out, a book Crimes up by 40 percent By ERICKA CRUZ GUEVARRA Oregon Public Broadcasting By CONRAD WILSON Oregon Public Broadcasting A regional jail in The Dalles that houses detain- ees for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has suggested local sheriffs keep their “numbers low” in the jail to make room for immi- grant detainees. The Northern Oregon Regional Corrections Facil- ity — or NORCOR — has housed immigration detain- ees since 1999, when the facility first opened. Critics of that process say it violates Oregon’s sanctuary law and have sued the jail. Documents included in that lawsuit give potential insight into how NORCOR allocates space for ICE detainees. In a Sept. 29, 2016 email, then-NORCOR Lt. Dan Lindhorst wrote ICE to ask that they increase their num- ber of detainees at the jail. “I see this morning we are down to 26 ICE detainees,” Lindhorst wrote. “Could you please see if you can get these numbers up. We have been keeping the county numbers low to make room for the 40 detainees that you had asked for. If you are not going to use us to that extent, please let me know that as well so I can advise my sheriffs.” Less than three hours later, an ICE official wrote back indicating detainees would soon arrive from the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington. “Tacoma is working on vetting more detainees to go to NORCOR,” ICE official Larry Peterson wrote. “I will let you know when they are ready for transfer.” “Thanks, I have been get- ting pressed for people,” Lindhorst wrote back. Conrad Wilson/Oregon Public Broadcasting Two ICE detainees sit on top of a metal table watching television at a regional jail in The Dalles in 2017. “No problem,” Peterson wrote. “I will keep hounding them for more.” Lindhorst has since been promoted to NORCOR’s commander. He declined to comment Thursday, citing the pending litigation. NORCOR is the regional jail for Hood River, Gilliam, Sherman and Wasco coun- ties. It also contracts with Benton County to house inmates. But in recent years, the jail has become particu- larly reliant on funding from its increasingly lucra- tive contract with ICE. Last year, the federal agency paid NORCOR more than $900,000 to house detainees, according to the jail’s budget documents. That’s more than 11 percent of the jail’s 2017– 18 budget. The county’s contract with ICE doesn’t guaran- tee how much the federal agency will use NORCOR. But in 2016, then-jail admin- istrator Bryan Brandenburg told Oregon Public Broad- casting that ICE does “their best to keep our numbers up a little bit.” In 2016, Wasco County failed to continue a property tax levy to fund the jail, mak- ing the jail even more reliant on its contract with ICE. “Huge,” Gilliam County Sheriff Gary Bettencourt said when describing the problem if the jail’s ICE con- tract went away. “It would be a huge problem.” Bettencourt said the jail uses a matrix system when the inmate population starts to reach capacity. He said there’s a “very low number of people we matrix.” Historically, the jail’s population has been slightly more than 200 adult inmates and detainees. “If we get over that, we initiate the matrix system that just starts pushing peo- ple out the door,” Betten- court said. “It’s kind of a grading system; somebody who’s not a threat to the community or themselves, so it’s got to be a pretty low- level crime.” He said an inmate’s crim- inal history is also taken into consideration before that per- son is let out to make room for more serious offenders. “We think our local bed numbers are adequate,” Bet- tencourt said. He said there’s never been a time when the ICE con- tract has prevented someone arrested locally from getting booked into the jail. “We’re never not able to take a local person,” he said. The sheriffs of Hood River, Sherman and Wasco counties did not immediately return requests for comment. FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA TONIGHT SATURDAY SUNDAY 43 Patchy clouds ALMANAC Mostly sunny Partly sunny Tillamook 41/56 Times of clouds and sun Last Salem 38/59 Newport 43/58 Nov 29 First Dec 6 Dec 15 Burns 17/49 Klamath Falls 22/56 TOMORROW'S TIDES Astoria / Port Docks Time 2:18 a.m. 3:12 p.m. Low 1.6 ft. 2.7 ft. REGIONAL CITIES City Baker City Bend Brookings Eugene Ilwaco Klamath Falls Medford Newberg Newport North Bend Hi 52 56 64 58 55 59 63 57 56 60 Today Lo 23 31 46 37 44 22 34 41 43 42 W pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc Hi 46 44 60 58 56 56 63 56 58 61 Sat. Lo W 14 s 23 s 43 s 30 s 37 s 21 s 34 s 33 s 40 s 41 s City Olympia Pendleton Portland Roseburg Salem Seaside Spokane Springfi eld Vancouver Yakima Hi 54 48 56 58 59 56 42 57 57 50 Today Lo 35 29 44 42 38 42 24 38 40 24 W r pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc Hi 51 42 55 60 59 57 39 59 53 47 Sat. Lo W 28 s 24 s 36 s 39 s 31 s 34 s 21 s 33 s 32 s 21 s TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER NATIONAL CITIES W s r pc pc pc c s pc c pc s pc pc pc pc s s r s c s s pc r pc Hi 63 49 36 32 32 39 68 22 82 42 40 70 71 65 81 62 69 47 55 47 47 46 62 54 49 Sat. Lo 41 33 24 16 16 25 39 15 71 32 20 47 52 44 69 41 52 37 29 34 30 27 44 34 37 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W s pc sn sf sn sn pc i sh c c pc pc s pc s s pc pc s c pc pc s s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice. CANNON BEACH — Ecola Seafood Restaurant and Market will have a grand reopening on Nov. 30 after an electrical fire closed its doors in July. The market, a family-owned and -operated business in Can- non Beach for 25 years, was forced to close for four months for renovations due to severe smoke damage. After missing most of the peak tourism season, the family is hoping to welcome back cus- tomers just in time for Thanks- giving with a soft opening is scheduled for Wednesday. The grand reopening will be held 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Nov. 30 and feature food and free giveaways. Charlotte Mae Patching Astoria Nov. 3, 1927 — Nov. 13, 2018 Charlotte Patching was born to Willis and she would play “Jesus Loves Me” and “You Myrtle Deal in Longview, Washington, on Nov. Are My Sunshine.” Charlotte and her piano 3, 1927. Charlotte married Duane Patching on provided so many hours of entertainment. The July 17, 1946, and they enjoyed 60 wonderful only forbidden song was “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer”! years together. While attending Rainier High Charlotte was an active mem- ber of the First United Method- School, Charlotte worked as a tele- ist Church, loved baking, enjoyed phone operator and stapler in a box car rides, spent hours tending flow- assembly plant. She graduated from ers and cherished her friendships in high school in 1945, and moved to Astoria in 1959, after purchas- Alpha Iota Sorority. ing Miles Grocery. Charlotte later Music was Charlotte’s life- long passion. It’s the way she con- worked for Teamsters Local 569/58, nected with people. Whether she and retired in 1984. Charlotte went peacefully to her was playing piano with an ensem- Charlotte ble in church, accompanying a nurs- heavenly home on Nov. 13, 2018. Patching ing home service, leading Christmas She was preceded in death by her carols at her annual Cookie and Car- husband, Duane, her parents, two oling party, or playing polkas on the accordion brothers and two sisters. She is survived by beside a campfire, Charlotte’s music always daughter, Diane (Walt) Curs; son, James (Jan) brightened the mood. Patching; daughter, Dorothy Leonhardt (Paul Her natural talent was amazing, and her Winiarz); grandchildren, Dean Fisher, Tami greatest fan was her husband. She played by (Collin) Stelzig, Amy (Jeremy) Bubar, Andrew ear and read music. You could call out any song (Rebecca) Patching and Kari (Derek) Smith; — hymn, oldie, country, patriotic — and Char- and 10 great-grandchildren. lotte would play it. If it was pitched too high or Remembrances may be made to the First low, she’d transpose it and encourage everyone United Methodist Church, Astoria, or the Shri- to sing along. Her talents and personality at the ners Hospital for Children. Please join in Charlotte’s celebration of life piano were unparalleled. Her overwhelming shyness melted away at First United Methodist Church on Sunday, when she sat at a piano, and she loved to have Nov. 18, at 2 p.m. Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary is in friends and family around her while she played. Towards the end of her earthly life, she would charge of the arrangements. Please sign our ask caregivers to wheel her to the spinet where guest book at caldwellsmortuary.com LOTTERIES Lakeview 23/53 Ashland 39/64 The Daily Astorian MONDAY Seaside City Council, 6 p.m., workshop regarding new Seaside School District projects, 989 Broadway. Astoria City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 1095 Duane St. Ontario 27/53 Bend 31/44 Ecola Seafood Restaurant and Market to reopen after fire in Cannon Beach PUBLIC MEETINGS Baker 23/46 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 Source: Jim Todd, OMSI Hi 55 45 41 61 45 39 64 18 83 39 54 69 75 58 76 55 63 46 63 45 45 54 66 56 48 John Day 31/48 had zero documented murder or non-negligent manslaughter hate crimes in 2017. Kai Wiggins, a policy ana- lyst with the Arab Ameri- can Institute in Washington, D.C., said that’s despite the high-profile murders of two people on a Portland MAX train last summer. The alleged assailant, Jer- emy Christian, faces aggra- vated murder charges for kill- ing two and stabbing a third. But the Portland Police Bureau, which submitted 18 known hate crimes to the FBI in 2017, said it believes the hate crime charges against the MAX train assailant are for the intimidation of the two girls who were allegedly berated with racial slurs on the train. One of them was wear- ing a hijab. Christian faces just two counts of intimidation for his actions toward the two young women. Those are hate crime charges in the state of Oregon. La Grande 28/43 Roseburg 42/60 Brookings 46/61 Tonight's Sky: At 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy is high overhead. Today Lo 39 36 30 27 30 33 38 11 74 27 35 48 52 41 64 32 46 36 38 34 31 34 44 42 37 Lebanon 37/58 Medford 34/63 UNDER THE SKY High 7.6 ft. 6.6 ft. Prineville 30/48 Eugene 37/58 New Pendleton 29/42 The Dalles 31/50 Portland 44/55 Sunset tonight ........................... 4:42 p.m. Sunrise Saturday ........................ 7:19 a.m. Coos Bay Moonrise today .......................... 2:06 p.m. 43/62 Moonset today ................................... none City Atlanta Boston Chicago Denver Des Moines Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Honolulu Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Philadelphia St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington, DC 56 42 Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs. ASTORIA 43/57 SUN AND MOON Time 9:03 a.m. 8:54 p.m. TUESDAY 56 38 REGIONAL WEATHER Precipitation Thursday .......................................... 0.00" Month to date ................................... 2.07" Normal month to date ....................... 5.15" Year to date .................................... 48.80" Normal year to date ........................ 51.37" Nov 22 57 36 Mostly sunny Astoria through Thursday. Temperatures High/low ....................................... 56°/40° Normal high/low ........................... 54°/40° Record high ............................ 66° in 2004 Record low ............................. 17° in 1955 Full MONDAY 57 36 that includes interviews with the two young women at the center of the fatal MAX train stabbing in Portland last year. “And that’s because the FBI data relies on voluntary reporting by local police. It’s not mandatory,” he said. The data shows 146 hate crimes reported in 2017, com- pared to 104 in 2016. A majority of jurisdictions in Oregon reported zero hate crimes to the FBI. Among them was Clack- amas County, where at least two known hate crimes were prosecuted last year, accord- ing to the Clackamas County District Attorney’s office. Political advocacy groups that work with politically underrepresented communi- ties were quick to dismiss the data as at least partially illegit- imate because of such omis- sions — and disagreement with law enforcement over how hate crimes are classified. FBI data shows Oregon OREGON Thursday’s Pick 4: 1 p.m.: 5-6-1-7 4 p.m.: 1-3-0-6 7 p.m.: 6-5-3-3 10 p.m.: 2-8-2-1 Thursday’s Lucky Lines: 04-06- 11-16-FREE-20-23-26-31 Estimated jackpot: $10,000 Thursday’s Keno: 01-09-10- 13-22-30-39-41-43-48-49-50- 51-53-57-61-66-72-74-75 WASHINGTON Thursday’s Daily Game: 8-7-4 Thursday’s Match 4: 02-08- 10-20 OBITUARY POLICY The Daily Astorian publishes paid obituaries. The obituary can include a small photo and, for veterans, a flag symbol at no charge. 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