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BLUE ANGELS JET CRASHES, KILLING PILOT THREE LOCAL TEAMS HEAD INTO FINALS NATION/8A SPORTS/1B FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 2016 140th Year, No. 165 One dollar WINNER OF THE 2015 ONPA GENERAL EXCELLENCE AWARD OREGON DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS Your Weekend Prisons prepare for more inmates By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau • • • Umatilla County Pioneer Days Picnic in Weston June Cruisin and Old Iron Show in Pendleton Sisters in Song Spring Concert in Pendleton For times and places see Coming Events, 6A Catch a movie SALEM — Despite a $55 million investment in programs to reduce the prison population, the Department of Corrections is poised to spend $4 million before fall to add beds at two minimum-security institutions. The legislative Emergency Board approved the additional allocation to the Department of Corrections May 25. The money will pay for additional staff and security equipment at Deer Ridge Correctional Institution in Madras and prepare the mothballed Oregon State Penitentiary-Min- imum in Salem to accept female inmates. The department already received $2.5 million in February to move 787 male inmates from a mini- mum-security facility to a larger vacant medium-security building at Deer Ridge, where there is room to add more beds. Another $3 million approved last month will pay security equipment to complete the move and add 200 beds to the prison. The Emergency Board also approved 33 additional positions at the prison to serve the additional anticipated inmates. Another $1 million was approved to pay for the process of reopening the Oregon State Penitentiary-Min- imum in Salem — an annex of the Oregon State Penitentiary, which was shuttered in 2010 to save money during the recession. Opening the annex will relieve pressure from the state’s only women’s prison, Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. The threshold number of inmates that can safely be housed at Coffee Creek is 1,280, said Colette Peters, director of the Department of Corrections. The facility is currently Brown: New tax should go to high schools Lula Carvalho/Paramount Pictures via AP The pizza-loving reptiles return to the big screen in “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.” For showtime, Page 5A For review, Weekend EO Weekend Weather Fri Sat See INMATES/8A Sun By KRISTENA HANSEN Associated Press 85/55 94/58 legality of bringing drug-sniffi ng dogs to an apartment inspection. Neither the property manager nor the building owner, they said, would have the legal right to let police search apartments where people currently lived. The decision on whether or not to allow the dogs would be up to the tenant. And while renters can consent to allow police searches, Roberts said they also can take away that consent at any moment during the search. “And we have to comply with that,” he said. Obtaining a search warrant through the courts is the surest way to conduct a legal search, he said. PORTLAND — With the largest corporate tax hike in Oregon history likely headed to voters in November, lawmakers have two different scenarios to consider for the n e x t two-year budget cycle: one with an extra $6 billion in tax r e v e n u e , Brown and one without. That reality prompted Gov. Kate Brown on Thursday to release her own vision for some of that revenue if Initiative Petition 28 passes this fall. It involves creating an endowment fund for high school vocational programs in hopes of boosting grad- uation rates; expanding earned income tax credits for low-income households; and establishing tax credits for corporations that dedicate a portion of their tax bill to the Oregon Growth Fund for small and minority busi- nesses. Cost estimates weren’t immediately available as discussions with lawmakers, who will ultimately decide the plan’s fate, were just beginning. But offi cials in Brown’s offi ce say it’s a framework to start with, an effort to lock away at least some of what’d otherwise be discretionary money for the Oregon Legislature. “The time to build the boat is before the tide rises,” Brown, who remains neutral on IP 28, said in a statement. “As I consider the develop- ment of budgets and policies for 2017-19, my Corporate Tax Implementation Plan provides a framework for planning that advances my priorities: improve our high school graduation rate, continue economic growth statewide and protect Oregon jobs.” The measure — a gross receipts tax hike proposal that would apply to busi- nesses with $25 million- plus in annual sales and is awaiting fi nal approval for the November ballot — specifi es that all revenue See APARTMENTS/8A See TAX/8A 97/67 Ryan endorses Trump Old iron in the park By STEVE PEOPLES and SCOTT BAUER Associated Press JANESVILLE, Wis. — House Speaker Paul Ryan endorsed Donald Trump’s bid for president on Thursday, bringing an end to the extraordinary public split between the GOP’s presumptive White House nominee and the nation’s top Republican in offi ce. “I had friends wishing I wouldn’t support him. I had friends wishing I would,” Ryan said in an exclusive interview with The Associ- ated Press. “I really didn’t feel any pressure, other than my goal is to make sure that were unifi ed so that we’re at full strength in the fall so we can win the election.” Ryan’s announcement, made in a newspaper column published in his Wisconsin hometown, marks a signif- See TRUMP/8A Staff photo by E.J. Harris John Olsen of Pendleton works on tightening a drive chain on a 1950s era John Deere corn sheller for owner Gary Hugill of Pendleton, not photographed, while setting up for the 13th Annual Old Iron Show at Roy Raley Park in Pendleton. The Old Iron Show is sponsored by the Heritage Station Museum and runs from Friday through Sunday. See Coming Events, Page 6A, for details. PENDLETON Apartment inspection warning may carry more bark than bite Signs posted on doors warn of police dogs doing drug inspections By PHIL WRIGHT East Oregonian The manager of a Pendleton apart- ment complex may have stepped over a legal line when she notifi ed tenants she would bring in police dogs for inspections. The East Oregonian obtained a copy of the notice property manager Marta Poulson taped to doors at Security Apartments, 130 S.W. Court Ave., Pendleton, on May 27. Most of the notice reminds tenants to adhere to lease agreements, including limiting how long guests can stay and to not have drugs, even marijuana, in the apartments. And then comes this: “I have scheduled for Umatilla County Sheriff’s Department to bring police dogs to help with our next inspection. I will post a 24 hour notice prior to the inspection.” Umatilla County Sheriff Terry Rowan said no one has scheduled this kind of search with his offi ce and could not if they wanted to — the sheriff’s offi ce has not had a K9 unit for two years. He also said the sheriff’s offi ce does not have agreements with apart- ment managers and property owners to conduct such searches. And in this case, the Pendleton Police Department would have jurisdiction because the site is inside city limits. Pendleton Police Chief Stuart Roberts also said his department does Staff photo by E.J. Harris Notices informing residents police dogs would be used during an upcoming inspection were recently taped to tenant’s doors at the Security Apartments in Pendleton. not have agreements to bring the K9 unit to property inspections, though Pendleton police do receive those requests. Roberts said he and the police dog’s handler review those on a case-by-case basis. They have done a few searches of vacant apartments and houses, he said, to clear them of any drugs, syringes and other paraphernalia to help owners or managers make sure properties are safe. “Even if we fi nd something in that case, we can’t use it to further a criminal investigation,” Roberts said, so police dispose of it through incin- eration. Rowan and Roberts in separate interviews said the real issue here is the
