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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Thursday, March 17, 2016 School safety tip line set for June Newberg student had ‘growing utive assistant. The funding also pays for three additional state police posi- SALEM — A statewide tions to oversee the tip line. The student threat tip line to help positions are a project manager, avert school shootings and other policy analyst and limited dura- tragedies is scheduled to be up tion administrative support. The and running by June, according project manager will be the point of contact with the contractor to Oregon State Police. The Oregon Legislature in who will provide a software February unanimously approved solution for a call center and $1 million in funding for the tip marketing and outreach. The tip line will have phone, line via House Bill 4075. The legislation is awaiting Gov. Kate email, text and web-based appli- cations, McCartt said. Brown’s signature. “It’s going to be marketed to “It’s going to give an outlet for students, teachers and parents students of a certain age who to vet or discuss concerns about are afraid to call 911,” McCartt student safety, which right said. “We are trying to give them now we don’t have a place for D IULHQGO\ FRQ¿GHQWLDO ZD\ IRU that,” said OSP Superintendent them to call.” The tip line will have voice, Richard Evans. “In the Colorado model, tons of calls have come text and mobile application capa- in, everything from suicide bilities and could be modeled behavior to bullying, so I think after a system used in Colorado. Colorado’s SAFE2TELL it’ll be very positive.” State police are in the process V\VWHPKDVUHFHLYHGWLSV of selecting a contractor to since 2004. The majority of launch and operate the tip line those were reports of bullying and will begin contract negoti- and suicidal behavior. But the DWLRQV ZLWK RQH RI WKH ¿QDOLVWV V\VWHP DOVR WRRN LQ UHSRUWV after the governor signs the bill, RI WKUHDWV RI YLROHQFH DQG said Mindy McCartt, OSP exec- reports of planned attacks on By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau obsession’ to shoot up school schools, according to a task force report. The tip line is one of the recommendations the Oregon Task Force on School Safety. Lawmakers established the 14-member task force in 2014 to look at ways to improve school safety and security after shoot- ings at Clackamas Town Center and Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Task force Vice Chairman Evans and Chairman Craig Roberts, Clackamas County sheriff, are among some of the task force members who have responded to mass shootings in Oregon. The task force’s other priori- ties involve starting a statewide GDWDEDVH RI VFKRRO ÀRRU SODQV and safety protocols and starting statewide student threat assess- ment system. Members of the task force will ask lawmakers in 2017 to fund the threat assess- ment system. Lawmakers funded a tip line in 1998 after the school shooting DW 6SULQJ¿HOG¶V 7KXUVWRQ +LJK School but later eliminated it in budget cuts. PORTLAND (AP) — An Oregon teenager wrote in a journal that he had a “growing obsession” with shooting up his high school and wanted to kill at least 100 people, police said in a court document. $QRI¿FHUIRXQGWKHMRXUQDOLQWKH boy’s bedroom while investigating a threat at Newberg High School, Capt. Chris Bolek of the Newberg-Dundee Police Department wrote in a probable FDXVHDI¿GDYLW Police announced the teen’s arrest Tuesday on charges of attempted assault and attempted unlawful use of a weapon. He is being held in the Yamhill County Juvenile Detention Facility in McMinnville. The Asso- ciated Press is withholding his name EHFDXVHKH¶VDPLQRU(IIRUWVWR¿QGDQ attorney for the teen were unsuccessful Wednesday morning. According to Bolek, the journal named 20 students and faculty as targets, and included a list of items the boy would need to carry out the attack, including guns, bombs, masks, chains, locks and “lots of ammo.” The journal contained a map of the school that’s 25 miles southwest of Portland, including where bombs would be placed and gates would be chain-locked. The locked gates were part of the plan to isolate victims in a “kill zone.” Bolek said he learned that the suspect tried to unlock his mother’s VDIH WR JHW D ¿UHDUP DQG FRQWDFWHG others about obtaining weapons. According to witnesses, the boy initially wanted to attack on the last day of school. “After realizing that many students would likely not be in school on the last day of school, it was decided that the plan was to be carried out in 70 days,” to ensure the highest number of students would still be in school, Bolek wrote. 2I¿FHUV LQWHUYLHZHG DERXW students, teachers and counselors during the investigation. Claudia Stewart, spokeswoman for Newberg schools, said the district can’t GLVFXVV VSHFL¿FV RI DQ DFWLYH LQYHVWL- gation. She said classes and activities are running as usual, and counselors have been available to students. Local governments discuss suing Survey to track steelhead in urban streams Oregon over minimum wage law Creek in high-water events. head everywhere the traps were By MARK FREEMAN Mail Tribune PHOENIX — For years, Jim Ferguson and other volunteers KDYH XVHG D VSHFLDO ¿VK WUDS water bucket and a simple DTXDULXP ¿VKQHW WR VXUYH\ IRU wild steelhead captured in the Bear Creek Basin’s urban tribu- taries. Ferguson would pull them out of the trap with the net and place them in the bucket to be LGHQWL¿HGFRXQWHGDQGUHOHDVHG This year, however, he’s added a pair of scissors to expand that survey one little snip RID¿QDWDWLPH Ferguson and others are adding a new twist to a simple juvenile steelhead survey by clipping a tiny piece of the tail ¿Q RI WKH ¿VK FDXJKW LQ WKHVH traps. That way, when and where WKHVH \RXQJ ¿VK JHW FDSWXUHG again in another survey trap will add a new chapter to the unfolding story of the basin’s urban streams. Years of trapping juveniles as they move in and out of trib- utaries during the winter have shown young steelhead rely on even the smallest seasonal streams as refuges from Bear %XWWKH¿QFOLSSLQJLVWKH¿UVW step in learning how steelhead hide out in the same creeks all winter, whether they move around and, if so, how far they go. It could show whether 0HGIRUG ¿VK HYHU KHDG XS WR Ashland streams to cool off in the summer. Over time it could also estimate how many steel- head are in individual creeks during each storm and how long they stay. “We’ve been doing this trap- ping for years and now we’re adding a new component to it,” says Ryan Battleson, an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist overseeing the survey. ³:HPDUNWKH¿VKDQGVHHLIZH catch it again. “This is the simplest way of doing a mark and recapture,” Battleson says. “For a species like this, it’s hard to get your arms around them without it.” The ODFW biologists and volunteers began building and installing these portable “hoop” traps in 2005 to do simple VXUYH\V RI ZKDW ¿VK VSHFLHV DUH SUHVHQW LQ 5RJXH %DVLQ streams, including 11 Bear Creek tributaries. Not only did the traps capture young steel- SODFHG ELRORJLVWV IRXQG ¿VK LQ ¿YH VWUHDPV SUHYLRXVO\ GHHPHG ¿VKOHVV The data shows that even the shortest, seemingly innocuous tributaries at times provide key refuges for wild steelhead. So far, however, Battleson and a few volunteers have kept this winter’s surveys to Wagner Creek and an unnamed seasonal stream through Phoenix’s Blue Heron Park where young steel- head were only recently found. They have captured and ¿QFOLSSHG VWHHOKHDG LQ WKH stream, and recaptured seven of them again as they used the tributary later. ,Q :DJQHU &UHHN VWHHO- KHDGKDYHEHHQ¿QFOLSSHGDQG six of them have been recap- tured, Battleson says. Ultimately Battleson would like to institute a broader survey by trapping and tagging young steelhead in several Bear Creek tributaries, each of which would be color-coded to denote where they were originally captured. Eventually he’d like to see WKH VXUYH\ JR GLJLWDO E\ ¿WWLQJ some young steelhead with transmitters so their movements could be tracked in real time. (8*(1($3²/RFDORI¿FLDOV in Oregon are considering suing the state over a recent increase to the minimum wage and other labor laws. Some county leaders say the wage increase and a 2015 law requiring paid sick leave amount to unfunded mandates to local governments, reported The Register-Guard. Under the Oregon Constitution, the Legislature must provide funding to cities or counties if it requires new programs or increased service. It’s unclear whether the language applies to labor policies and it has yet to be tested in court. The state didn’t provide money to cover the new worker-friendly laws. Most local employees are paid more than minimum wage and already have sick days, but the policies do mean some additional costs for local governments. Most of the cost will come from compensating low-level part-time and seasonal workers. Cities and counties also argue that a higher minimum wage will drive up the wages of higher-paid employees. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. 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