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‘I don’t know about
the evidence in this
case. I don’t know
that the government is
going to prove much.
There’s no forensic
evidence. There’s no
confessions’
— John Henry Browne
memory of events from before and after the
killings but recalls very little or nothing of
the time the military believes he went on a
shooting spree through two Afghan villages.
“He has some memories of before the
incident and he has some memories of after
the incident. In between, very little,”
Browne said.
Brown said there were potential mental
health issues for his client, but that he didn’t
have expertise to make a qualified judg-
ment. “Dragging parts of bodies around is
not something that really you forget very
often,” he said. “He’s in shock.”
Browne, a Seattle attorney who defended
serial killer Ted Bundy and a thief known as
the “Barefoot Bandit,” has said he has han-
dled three or four military cases. The
defense team includes a military defense
lawyer, Maj. Thomas Hurley.
After their investigation, military attor-
neys could present charges to a commander,
who then makes a judgment on whether
there is probable cause to believe that an
offense was committed and that the accused
committed it.
That commander then submits the charges
to a convening authority, who typically is
the commander of the brigade to which the
accused is assigned but could be of higher
rank.
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
problems. Ninety-nine percent of America
has financial problem,” he said. “You don’t
go kill women and children because you
have financial problems.”
Browne has said Bales has a sketchy
Members of Occupy Beacon Hill braved unseasonal weather to protest
against Chase Bank. The event was held on the same day as a national
protest against Chase. It was held the same day of a national Occupy
action against CHASE, originally called by Occupy Atlanta. Occupy
groups in Seattle, Spokane, Bellingham, Olympia, Everett, West Seattle,
Beacon Hill, Othello, the University District and the Central district all
protested against Chase in their individual communities.
Jobs
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their profiles set to private, making them
available only to selected people or certain
networks.
Companies that don’t ask for passwords
have taken other steps - such as asking
applicants to friend human resource man-
agers or to log in to a company computer
during an interview. Once employed, some
workers have been required to sign non-dis-
paragement agreements that ban them
from talking negatively about an
employer on social media.
Asking for a candidate’s password is
more prevalent among public agen-
cies, especially those seeking to fill
law enforcement positions such as
police officers or 911 dispatchers.
Back in 2010, Robert Collins was
returning to his job as a correctional
officer at the Maryland Department of
Public Safety and Correctional Servic-
es after taking a leave following his moth-
er’s death. During a reinstatement
interview, he was asked for his login and
password, purportedly so the agency could
check for any gang affiliations. He was
stunned by the request but complied.
“I needed my job to feed my family. I had
to,” he recalled.
After the ACLU complained about the
practice, the agency amended its policy,
asking instead for job applicants to log in
during interviews.
“To me, that’s still invasive. I can appre-
ciate the desire to learn more about the
applicant, but it’s still a violation of peo-
ple’s personal privacy,” said Collins, whose
case inspired Maryland’s legislation.
Until last year, the city of Bozeman,
Chief Deputy Rusty Thomas defended the
practice, saying applicants have a right to
refuse. But no one has ever done so.
Thomas said that “speaks well of the people
we have apply.”
When asked what sort of material would
jeopardize job prospects, Thomas said “it
depends on the situation” but could include
“inappropriate pictures or relationships with
people who are underage, illegal
behavior.”
E. Chandlee Bryan, a career coach
and co-author of the book “The Twit-
ter Job Search Guide,” said job seek-
ers should always be aware of what’s
on their social media sites and
assume someone is going to look at
it.
Bryan said she is troubled by com-
panies asking for logins, but she feels
it’s not a violation if an employer asks to see
a Facebook profile through a friend request.
And she’s not troubled by non-disparage-
ment agreements.
More companies are also using third-party
applications to scour Facebook profiles,
Bryan said. One app called BeKnown can
sometimes access personal profiles, short of
wall messages, if a job seeker allows it.
Sears is one of the companies using apps.
An applicant has the option of logging into
the Sears job site through Facebook by
allowing a third-party application to draw
information from the profile, such as friend
lists.
Sears Holdings Inc. spokeswoman Kim
Freely said using a Facebook profile to
apply allows Sears to be updated on the
applicant’s work history.
The company assumes “that people keep
their social profiles updated to the minute,
which allows us to consider them for other
jobs in the future or for ones that they may
not realize are available currently,” she said.
Facebook declined to comment except for
issuing a brief statement declaring that the
site forbids “anyone from soliciting the
login information or accessing an account
belonging to someone else.”
Giving out Facebook login information
also violates the social network’s terms of
service. But those terms have questionable
legal weight, and experts say the legality of
asking for such information remains murky.
apartments as permanent supportive hous-
ing for homeless individuals who are dis-
abled by substance use or multiple
co-occurring disorders. Half of the units
will be reserved for homeless military vet-
erans. Located in the Cascade neighbor-
hood, the new six-story building will
cally homeless and are disabled by chemical
dependency or co-occurring mental health
and chemical dependency. The new funds
will expand the supportive services avail-
able onsite to add chemical dependency
services and health care/nursing support for
residents.
Every year, community-based
organizations join with the City of
Seattle and King County to submit a
joint application for the McKinney
funding that allows county and local
governments and their many partners
to provide essential housing and sup-
portive services for homeless people.
The funding is critical to the ongoing
work of the Committee to End Homeless-
ness in King County and the implementa-
tion of the Ten-Year Plan to End
Homelessness.
Giving out Facebook login
information also violates the
social network’s terms of
service
Mont., had a long-standing policy of asking
job applicants for passwords to their email
addresses, social-networking websites and
other online accounts.
And since 2006, the McLean County, Ill.,
sheriff’s office has been one of several Illi-
nois sheriff’s departments that ask appli-
cants to sign into social media sites to be
screened.
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Grant
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efforts to help prevent and end homeless-
ness in our region,” said Seattle Mayor
Mike McGinn. “The combination of perma-
nent housing with supportive services is a
key strategy to help chronically homeless
adults, including military veterans, find sta-
ble housing and rebuild their lives.”
The new money is in addition to $21.8
million in renewal grants received by Seat-
tle and King County from HUD that were
announced in December 2011. That funding
supported a total of 1,776 units of housing,
including 754 units of transitional housing
and 1,022 units of permanent housing for
people with disabilities. Funding was also
provided for the Safe Harbors Homeless
Management Information System, which
collects data on services provided to home-
less people in programs throughout King
County and is critical to successful grant
applications to HUD.
The new assistance dollars will help to
ensure that residents in these facilities
receive the onsite services they need to
achieve and maintain housing stability. Sup-
portive housing has proven extremely effec-
tive in successfully housing people whose
lives have been shattered by homelessness,
mental illness and addiction, while saving
millions of dollars in emergency services.
The three projects receiving federal
funding are:
1. Downtown Emergency Service
Center (DESC) Aurora Supportive
Housing - $473,253. Located on
Aurora Avenue in the Northgate
neighborhood, this project will create
a new six-story building to provide
permanent supportive housing for 87
homeless adults, with 24-hour onsite
staffing and case management services. All
of the units will be reserved for chronically
homeless single men and women.
2. Plymouth Housing Group (PHG)
Williams Apartments - $473,254. The
Williams Apartments will provide 81 studio
At Plymouth, half of the units
will be reserved for homeless
military veterans
provide onsite case management.
3. Archdiocesan Housing Authority
(AHA) Ozanam House - $27,395. Located
in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood,
Ozanam provides 55 units of permanent
supportive housing for homeless people
over the age of 55 who have been chroni-
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