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changes to city code, but conced-
ed that only San Francisco
includes fines for violators. Fines
would be a last resort, she said.
“We try to do everything we
can to work with the customer to
many tens of thousands of
pounds. It’s a very small percent-
age.”
Michael Armstrong, policy and
operations manager for the
Bureau of Planning and Sustain-
ability, explained that the
confidentiality proposal
came about so people
could feel safe reporting
a sidewalk obstruction.
“We typically protect the
name of the person to
keep them safe,” he said.
Armstrong said that the
Office of Neighborhood
Involvement and the
Office of Development
Services have similar
confidentiality rules for
similar
reasons.
However, he affirmed that once
written into the code it would
apply across the board, “to all
parts of the solid waste code.”
Won’t that encourage people with
grievances to use the city to get
another person into trouble?
“We never take action on the
basis of someone telling us some-
thing,” Armstrong says. “We
always look into it ourselves,
depending on what the issue is.”
not get there. My intent would be
to never use it but to have it be
there.”
Leonard said he would vote for
the ordinance if it made clear that
fines would not be levied. And
Commissioner Dan Salzman said
underlying the issue was the
change from weekly to bi-weekly
garbage collection.
Only a small number of house-
holders are putting waste in the
wrong bins, Anderson said.
“…100 lbs a week out of many,
LISA LOVING PHOTO
Proposed code
changes would spell
out violations, keep
confidential names of
neighbors who
complain
Volunteers from the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office broke ground Tuesday morning for a
new basketball/sport court for the Community Transitional School, which serves kids whose
families are homeless, in transition and experiencing chronic poverty related crises.
Volunteers from many local businesses as well as MCSO Court Services Captain Rai Adgers
expected to complete the facility by next week. Here Sheriff Dan Staton commemorated
the new sports court with Transitional School students.
Gangs
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way:
The East Portland Community Violence
Prevention Meeting is at 6 p.m. June 20 at
Papa’s Pizza parlor, 16321 S.E. Stark St.
The East Portland Neighborhood Violence
Prevention Committee is scheduled to meet
on the third Wednesday of every month.
The Northeast Portland Community Vio-
lence Prevention Meeting will be held from
6 to 8 p.m. June 26 at the Northeast Police
precinct, 449 N.E. Emerson St. The North-
east meeting is now scheduled for the last
Tuesday of each month.
The Office of Youth Violence prevention
promotes the 360 degrees strategy, which
combines efforts to keep youth on the right
track through activities, education, family
support and outreach to gang members with
arrest and prosecution for violent crimes.
“We have over 800 documented gang
members in the city and we can’t arrest all
of them,” said “It’s going to be about
changing mindsets.”
The meeting included a discussion about
guns.
Russ Corno, a police officer with the gang
enforcement team said more young people
are carrying weapons, and so when argu-
ments or fights break out they are more like-
ly to shoot. When youth know they will be
stopped and searched for weapons, they
don’t carry guns, Corno said, which makes
for more opportunity to think and change
their course before shooting.
Portland. Salazar said she believes more
girls are carrying weapons.
Corno said police are watching the people
they believe are most likely to use weapons.
“We definitely know who we need to tar-
get,” he said. “It’s a small percentage who
are committing the violence.”
‘We definitely know who we need to target. It’s
a small percentage who are committing the
violence’
-- Portland Police Officer Russ Corno
“That definitely is a fact,” he said. “The
less they have firearms on them the less
likely they are to spontaneously start shoot-
ing.”
Harris said that arguments and fights
increase the demand for guns, so preventing
minor arguments from escalating is impor-
tant. And Valerie Salazar, an outreach work-
er with IRCO, said young women have been
at the heart of several recent fights in East
From his enforcement perspective, Corno
wants to see shooters prosecuted for the
most serious crimes, instead of having
charges reduced to lesser crimes. That’s
because if a youth has a felony conviction,
they can be prosecuted for having a weapon
when they return to the community.
“It’s a hammer to maybe get them to
change their behavior,” he said.
Art Alexander, safety manager with Port-
result of the named officials’ negligence in
failing to timely and expeditiously protect
plaintiff from attack, and or minimize
housing of white supremacists in the gener-
al population.”
The lawsuit claims $75,000 in pain, suf-
land Parks, said we give youth the message
that they need weapons. Video games like
‘Call of Duty’, for example, tell youth that
shooting a gun is how you become a hero,”
he said.
“They are inundated with messages that
say:
Guns are cool
You’ve got to have a gun, and
It doesn’t matter because it’s urban war-
fare out there.”
For children in safe, healthy, comfortable
environments, such messages may have lit-
tle impact. Not so for children living in
communities impacted by violence, Alexan-
der said. Around University Park, for exam-
ple, “We have a ton of 10-14 year-old kids
out here playacting what they see in the
community.
“How do we get resources there, so we
can see a downward trend (in violence)?”
Alexander shared plans for summer youth
programs in the parks, with free lunches,
games, sports, gospel concerts and more.
Parks directors try to make sure no kid is
turned away for lack of funds, he said.
Jail
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prior to treatment and transport to a medical
facility, delaying treatment and ultimately
contributing to and causing permanent loss
of vision,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit also charges that the attackers
included a murderer who was held with the
general prison population, and an unspeci-
fied number of white supremacists.
“The wrongful beating and blinding of
plaintiff by was a proximate result of the
County’s negligent hiring, training and
supervision of deputies Hibbs and Scholl,”
the lawsuit says.
“The wrongful beating of plaintiff by
above-named defendants was a proximate
Batista had been serving a 20-day sentence at
Columbia County Jail rather than paying a
large fine for a hunting-related gun violation
injury, the negligent housing of a
murder[er] in the general population and the
fering and medical expenses and $15,000
for the cost of a glass eye.
The case was extensively investigated by
a Washington County Sheriffs Department
detective who turned in a 30-page report,
but as yet no charges have been filed against
the two known assailants, Ashley Wade
Siclovan and Scott David Lavelle.
A spokeswoman from the Columbia
County District Attorney’s office, said the
case remains unresolved.
“All I can tell you is it’s still open, so if
there ever comes a time that there’s enough
evidence (as with any potential case) to
charge a crime with, we’d charge,” she told
The Skanner News in an email.
June 13, 2012
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