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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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boy’s bedroom while investigating a
threat at Newberg High School, Capt.
Chris Bolek of the Newberg-Dundee
Police Department wrote in a probable
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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
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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
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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.
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students, teachers and counselors
during the investigation.
Claudia Stewart, spokeswoman for
Newberg schools, said the district can’t
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gation. She said classes and activities
are running as usual, and counselors
have been available to students.
Local governments discuss suing
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head everywhere the traps were
By MARK FREEMAN
Mail Tribune
PHOENIX — For years, Jim
Ferguson and other volunteers
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water bucket and a simple
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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
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This year, however, he’s
added a pair of scissors to
expand that survey one little snip
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Ferguson and others are
adding a new twist to a simple
juvenile steelhead survey by
clipping a tiny piece of the tail
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traps. That way, when and where
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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streams, including 11 Bear
Creek tributaries. Not only did
the traps capture young steel-
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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
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stream, and recaptured seven
of them again as they used the
tributary later.
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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
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some young steelhead with
transmitters so their movements
could be tracked in real time.
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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.
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pleasant. Clear tonight. Cooler in the south
tomorrow.
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sunny tomorrow.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today.
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sun tomorrow.
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shower near the Idaho border. Clear tonight.
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The Lane County Board of
Commissioners is considering joining
the lawsuit originally proposed by
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“At this point in time, I don’t
know how I personally feel about
it,” Lane County Commissioner Sid
Leiken said. “But ... if there’s truly an
unfunded mandate, it’s worth at least
looking into it.”
But Commissioner Pete Sorenson,
the board’s only Democrat, opposed
joining the suit.
“It would be a bad thing if we got
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the protections that are afforded by
Oregon’s minimum wage law,” he
said.
Linn County Commissioner Roger
Nyquist said in an interview Tuesday
that about six other counties have
expressed an interest in joining the
lawsuit, but he declined to say when
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simply ignore the new wage law, but
Nyquist said Tuesday that approach is
now unlikely.
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