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October 02. 2002
Drug-Free Zones Approved
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from Front
The procedural changes
were the subject o f extensive
testimony at a public hearing
T h u rs d a y . T h e C o u n c il
adopted one change proposed
by c o m m is s io n e r
D an
S a ltz m a n , e x te n d in g th e
tim eline for presenting legal
challenges to the zone from
the current 5 days to 10. The
Community Law Center had
proposed extending the time
limit to 45 days.
The C ouncil rejected an
amendm ent by com m issioner
Erik Sten that would allow the
police to exclude people only
after their second arrest. Sten
was concerned that the ex
clusion could be applied to
someone stopped just once by
police in their own neighbor
hood.
“It’s not close to being a
chronic problem if th at’s all
they’ve done,” Sten said.
Police Capt. Rosie Sizer,
com m ander o f Central Pre
cinct, said that frequently it
takes law enforcem ent a long
time to make a charge stick
on someone known to be a
chronic offender.
Doreen Binder, director of
Transition Projects, noted that
(in the field of dom estic vio
lence treatm ent, it’s under
sto o d that the first arrest is
seldom the first offense.
Deputy district attorney Jim
Hayden said that Sten’s pro
posal could create the basis
of a legal challenge, since it
could be interpreted to mean
the exclusion is part of a pun
ishment.
Critics of the, zones, such
as Paul Levy of the M etro
politan Public Defenders O f
fice, said many people ar
rested and excluded in the
past were never charged with
a crime.
He said the police have and
will exclude people when
there is no probable cause to
charge them with a crime.
Both Sizer and M ultnom ah
have it applied only to people
previously charged w ith a
crim e.
In contrast, Binder said the
new law made getting vari
ances too easy.
“We work with people who
are trying to make their lives
over and take responsibility
for them ,” she said. “We place
our services outside our resi-
We work with people who are trying
to make their lives over and take
responsibility fo r them...Social service
agencies are there to help people move
on, not covering fo r them.
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—Doreen Binder, director of Transition Projects
County Deputy D istrict A t
torney Jim Hayden insisted
that few exclusions are made
that do not also meet the cri
teria for sufficient evidence
to charge a crime.
H o w e v er, S iz e r sa id a
shortage o f resources in the
D .A .’s office puts “the bar
for accepting cases for pros
ecution higher and higher.”
Binder and Sisters of the
Road Cafe Director Gennie
Nelson, two of the city ’ s most
resp e c te d h om eless a d v o
cates and providers, found
them selves on opposite sides
on the issue of how variances
should be applied.
Nelson conceded that be
fore a drug free ordinance in
Old Town, the district was an
“open drug m arket.”
H ow ever, she called for
allow ing social serv ices to
issue v ariances, to have the
e x c lu s io n re v o k e d if no
ch a rg e s are filed , and to
d e n tia l fa c ilitie s b ecau se
(traveling to them) is one of
the small steps we ask them
to take; we d o n ’t want to
make it too easy. Social ser
vice agencies are there to help
people move on, not covering
for them .”
R e p re s e n ta tiv e s o f the
Kerns Neighborhood Asso
ciatio n , C entral N ortheast
Neighbors Coalition, Parkrose
Neighborhood and Business
A s s o c ia tio n an d S u m n e r
N eighborhood A ssociation
were among the groups sup
porting the zones.
Several people said that
w hen e n fo rc e m e n t o f the
zones was suspended follow
ing a court challenge, they
had seen a drastic increase in
drug activity.
There was testim ony that
crim inal activity in com m er
cial districts often spills over
into adjacent residential ar
eas.
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