_____________ 2Ilje ÎJjîortlanô (Obseruer
lune II. 2003
Page A3
Incentives
Aimed at
Smoggy Cars
Senator Hassled by Store Security
i
Fred Meyer
denies that stop
was race-related
Fred Meyer has a long tradition o f
retail service to Oregonians. The calls I
have received and my own recent
experience suggest to me that the
company s security policies and practices
are unworthy o f this tradition.
b \ J avmee R .C uti
T he P ortland O bserver
For A frican A m ericans, being
hassled by security gu ard s and
stopped by police more often than
C aucasians seem s like a sad fact
o f life in A m erica. B ut one g ro
cery store chain is ap ologizing
profusely for profiling the wrong
black w om an — Sen. M argaret
C arter, D -Portland.
Since a store clerk stopped
C arter after shopping at a South
Salem Fred M eyer last w eek, the
senator said she received m any
calls, letters and e-m ails from
people w ho have had the sam e
experience at Fred M eyer stores.
-Sen.MargaretCarter
Sen. Margaret Carter
C arter purchased m eat at the
store for a barbeque hosted by
Sen. Jackie W inters, R- Salem. An
alarm apparently triggered the se
curity stop as she w as leaving
the store.
C arter said she w as stopped
and produced her receipt for the
groceries, while tw o or three other
w hite cu sto m ers co n tin u ed to
leave the store.
Rob Boley, spokesperson for
the superm arket chain, disagreed for m any years as well as training
with C arter’s account, saying that for supervisory personnel in the
a store investigation uncovered sto re.”
"co n clu siv e p ro o f” that no other
Boley said Fred M eyer has had
custom ers w ere leaving the store ci vil rights and racial discrim ina
at the sam e tim e. He w ould not tion claim s filed against them ,
explain what that p ro o f was.
but none have resulted in ju d g
“ In
a d d itio n
to
o u r m ents against the com pany.
longstanding anti-discrim ination
But rqccnt law suits against
p olicies,” Boley said, "w e ’ve had M acy’s, [Jillard’san d J.C Penney
a section on diversity in the w ork are shining light on the age-old
place in our em ployee handbook practice o f harassing custom ers
Oregon Civil Rights Law Celebrated
A special comm emoration will
celebrate the 50* anniversary o f an
Oregon law that barred restaurants,
hotels, parks and otherpublie ameni
ties from discriminating against ra
cial and ethnic minorities.
Senators Avel Gordly, Margaret
Carter and Jackie Winters are spon
soring the noon event at the state
capitol in Salem on Friday. June 13.
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The O regon D epartm ent o f
E n v iro n m en tal Q u ality has
team ed up with TriM et to offer
an alternative to drivers whose
cars fail the sta te ’s em ission
test.
Through the m onth o f A u
gust, area residents can do
nate theirenvironm entally-un-
friendly car for either a free T ri
M et annual bus pass, valued
at $615, a gift certificate worth
$500 to The Bike G allery or a
$500 credit to the F lexcar car
sharing program .
O fficials said about, one-
third o fth e 2,200 vehicles DEQ
tests daily, fail the em ission
test.
For m ore inform ation about
the new “C H O IC ES” program,
^ J n r t l a n h ( D b s c r tw r
FormerGov. Mark O. Hatfield, who
It was at this moment that Or
as a State Representative helped egon declared its intent to embrace
enact the Public Accommodations and protect the civil rights o f all o f
Law, will be the featured speaker.
its people- and particularly Afri
On April 2 8 ,1953, following the can-Americans, who had fought
leadership o f Hatfield, Verdell and for the law since 1919.
Otto Rutherford, and distinguished
A large photograph taken inside
members o f the NAACP, the O r the 1953 House o f Representatives
egon Legislative Assembly enacted at the law ’s passage, will be dis
the Public Accommodations Law. played at Friday 'scommcmoration.
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who were "shopping while black."
D enny’s, a restaurant chain ac
cused o f m aking A frican-A m eri
cans prepay for their m eals, paid
$54 m illion to settle a class-action
law suit in 1994 and A dam ’s Mark
Hotel settled allegations that its
D aytona Beach hotel d iscrim i
nated against A frican-A m erican
guests for $1.1 m illion in 2 0 0 1.
“ Fred M eyer has a long tradi
tion o f retail service to O rego
nians,” C arter said. “The calls I
have received and my ow n recent
experience suggest to m e that the
co m p an y ’s security policies and
practices are unw orthy o f this tra
dition."
C arter is seeking a m eeting with
the president o f Fred M eyer to
re c o m m e n d a re v ie w in the
co m p an y ’s search and security
policies and personnel training.
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electronic world.
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