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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SUNDAY TODAY Partly sunny Sunny and beautiful 71° 44° 72° 48° MONDAY TUESDAY Partly sunny and nice Partly sunny and pleasant PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 72° 49° 72° 50° 74° 53° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 76° 46° 77° 52° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 74° 83° 101° (1950) 54° 54° 38° (1919) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 0.02" 0.02" 0.03" 7.41" 5.02" 8.45" Corvallis 72/45 through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 77° 84° 100° (1950) 56° 53° 39° (2008) Sep 9 Sep 16 Last Sep 23 6:19 a.m. 7:29 p.m. 8:37 a.m. 8:42 p.m. New Sep 30 Bend 66/35 Caldwell 76/52 Astoria Baker City Bend Brookings Burns Enterprise Eugene Heppner Hermiston John Day Klamath Falls La Grande Meacham Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Redmond Salem Spokane Ukiah Vancouver Walla Walla Yakima Hi 68 70 66 66 72 68 74 70 76 72 71 70 67 78 60 65 78 76 71 69 70 72 68 65 68 73 74 Lo 50 37 35 49 39 41 45 42 46 45 36 42 38 49 47 51 53 45 44 52 35 47 46 33 48 48 44 Klamath Falls 71/36 Hi 67 68 66 65 68 63 73 70 77 67 67 68 65 76 60 65 75 78 72 70 69 71 72 65 68 74 77 Lo 53 32 34 49 29 40 45 43 52 43 30 37 36 46 48 49 47 46 48 51 33 48 47 35 50 52 45 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc pc s pc s pc s s s s s s s s pc pc pc s s pc s pc pc s pc pc pc WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 87 88 81 71 72 69 82 87 83 69 85 Lo 67 80 65 58 58 52 60 65 69 50 77 W s sh s r t pc pc pc pc r sh Sun. Hi 84 88 81 72 71 65 74 84 87 69 85 Lo 65 80 66 54 58 54 57 67 67 50 77 W t t s pc t sh t pc pc s sh (in mph) Today Sunday Boardman Pendleton W 4-8 W 6-12 WSW 4-8 W 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: A shower across the north today; low clouds followed by some sun elsewhere. Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny today. A thundershower in the south tonight. Western Washington: A shower in spots today. Mostly cloudy; sunnier across the south. Eastern Washington: Intervals of clouds and sunshine today. Clear tonight. Cascades: Partly sunny today; a shower in spots across the north during the afternoon. Northern California: Low clouds followed by sunshine at the coast today; plenty of sunshine elsewhere. 1 3 5 5 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Ofice hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and Dec. 25, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. 1 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2016 Didn’t receive your paper? Call 1-800-522-0255 before noon Tuesday through Friday or before 10 a.m. Saturday for same-day redelivery — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 3 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Copyright © 2016, EO Media Group Oregon DOC doesn’t track mistakes in inmate releases Coding error in Wash. set thousands free early By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau SALEM — Oregon corrections oficials say its rare that inmates are mistakenly released early, though they don’t track such errors. A computer coding error in Washington state caused thousands of inmates there to be released before they had completed their sentences. The Oregon Department of Corrections releases more than 5,000 inmates each year. Oficials said instances of erroneous releases in this state are a “rare occurrence” because they test computer codes used to calculate sentences and “good time” credit and review individual iles. But oficials could not provide an estimate of how many mistakes occur each year. “While DOC does not track when erro- neous early releases happen, we do know that it does not occur that often,” said Betty Bernt, a DOC spokeswoman. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced in December that state’s Department of Correc- tions had released up to 3,200 inmates too soon since 2002 because a software-coding error was miscalculating sentences. The error occurred when calculating “good time” credits for certain sentences. A victim’s family alerted oficials to the problem in 2012, but oficials knowingly delayed a scheduled software ix, according to a third-party investigation of the errors. Several of those prisoners committed crimes while they were free, Washington corrections oficials said. One prisoner, Jeremiah A. Smith, gunned down 17-year-old Ceasar Medina during an attempted robbery at a Spokane tattoo parlor in May 2015, less than two weeks after Smith’s accidental release from prison, according to multiple news reports. Oregon Department of Corrections has multiple systems in place to guard against mistakes in release dates, Bernt said. Information technology employees conduct extensive testing when sentencing tracking computer system updates are made due to law changes. Two separate correc- tions employees also review prisoner iles six months prior to release, with additional reviews at two weeks and one day before release, Bernt said. Mistakes in release dates usually stem from human error or failure to receive W c pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc s pc pc s c pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. WINDS Medford 78/49 0.05" 0.05" 0.02" 5.04" 3.26" 6.17" SUN AND MOON John Day 72/45 Ontario 78/53 Burns 72/39 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today First Full Albany 72/46 Eugene 74/45 TEMPERATURE 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 79° 55° Spokane Wenatchee 68/46 71/51 Tacoma Moses 69/45 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 73/45 68/38 64/49 68/43 74/44 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 67/48 73/48 Lewiston 76/45 Astoria 74/48 68/50 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 69/52 Pendleton 68/41 The Dalles 76/46 71/44 76/51 La Grande Salem 70/42 72/47 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 76° 52° Seattle 68/50 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 76° 51° Today WEDNESDAY Pleasant with some sun Saturday, September 3, 2016 E.J. Harris/EO Media Group Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton. “critical information” from the county jail or county court in a timely manner, she said. Mistakes are usually detected when corrections employees review an inmate’s ile after release for some reason, Bernt said. Events that could prompt a review include when a lawsuit is iled or when oficials receive a call from county oficials who have questions about the release, she said. John Potter, who has been executive director of the Oregon Criminal Defense Association for the past 37 years, said he has never known of a case when a client was released too early. “I can’t even come up with an anecdotal example of a lawyer who had someone who got out early because someone made a mistake,” Potter said. Rep. Jeff Barker, D-Aloha, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said he was unaware that Oregon corrections oficials don’t track the frequency of erroneous releases. “I don’t know if they have anybody released early, …but I would be interested in looking into that,” Barker said. Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said even though Oregon doesn’t appear to have a chronic problem with releasing inmates too early, he has asked DOC to begin to count how many times it happens. “I know they said they don’t normally, but they are going to maybe try to integrate that in, so they have a point of reference,” Prozanski said. Corrections oficials said they plan to track those numbers in the future, but have not selected a date. Tracking past instances would require oficials to manually pull the release records of every inmate, they said. “So far, our plans to start tracking erro- neous releases are in the discussion phase,” Bernt said. “We agree that erroneous releases should and can be tracked in some way, but need to explore the most accurate and efi- cient way to do that.” “We are conident that premature releases are a rare occurrence in Oregon,” she added. Corrections A Umatilla County jury on Wednesday convicted Sarah Marie Carr, 25, of Pendleton, on one count of second-degree kidnapping and one of attempted fourth-degree assault. The East Oregonian inadvertently left out the second count from a Friday story and sincerely regrets the oversight. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. -10s -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Hermine will bring flooding and strong winds from eastern North Carolina to Delmarva today. Storms will dot the Gulf coast, southern Rockies and northern Plains. Showers will dampen the northern Rockies. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 107° in Needles, Calif. Low 19° in Bodie State Park, Calif. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com UO president recommends renaming dorm named after KKK leader EUGENE (AP) — The University of Oregon’s president is recommending renaming a campus dormitory building named after a former faculty member who led the Eugene chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, following demands made last year by a task force that represents African Amer- ican students. The Register-Guard reported Friday that President Michael Schill will forward his recommendation to remove Frederic Dunn’s name from the dorm to the univer- sity’s Board of Trustees. It is scheduled to meet Sept. 8-9 and makes inal decisions about naming and renaming campus build- ings. Schill, however, has not made a decision yet whether to back another demand by the university’s Black Student Task force to take university founder Matthew Deady’s name off a campus building that was the university’s irst and is now home to the its mathematics department. A memo Schill made public Thursday said Deady, president of the university board of regents in the late 1800s, held “views that were racist and proslavery” but later denounced the Confederacy. Renaming Deady and Dunn halls was one of a dozen demands made in 2015 by the UO Black Student Task Force. Schill said he would like Dunn’s name removed from the dorm before students move in later this month so they no longer live in a dorm named for “someone noto- rious.” Dunn was the “exalted cyclops” of Eugene Klan No. 3 in the 1920s, when crosses were burned in the open atop Skinner Butte. “Dunn, as the head of an organization that supported racism and violence against African-Americans, Catholics and Jews, is not a man for whom a building should be named on the University of Oregon campus,” Schill wrote. Schill added: “While Dunn no doubt was a dedicated teacher and scholar, neither of these activities outweigh the harm he did by lending his name to one of the most despi- cable organizations in American history.” But Schill recognized Deady’s contri- butions to the UO and said the founder’s evolving views on protection of minorities in Oregon. “He is, in fact, widely regarded as one of the most important igures in the universi- ty’s history,” Schill wrote. Schill said he is seeking additional public comment about whether the building named after Deady should be renamed and hopes to make a recommendation by October. The president said no donors or alumni have threatened to withdraw support because of the possible name change. “This was going on all spring here and we had our best spring ever in terms of donations,” he said. “People want to hear about it because they care about the univer- sity, but none of the alumni or donors are putting pressure on me.” Grand Opening & Ribbon Cutting The public is welcome and invited to attend this community event. Come and enjoy wine, cheese tasting and hors d’oeuvres. Take a tour of our new beautiful Memory Care Homes. MEMORY CARE HOME - THE RANCH HOUSE Specializing in the care of individuals with Alzheimer’s or dementia. The Ranch features elements inspired by the surrounding area. 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