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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
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0.02"
0.03"
7.41"
5.02"
8.45"
Corvallis
72/45
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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
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
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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.
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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
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
WINDS
Medford
78/49
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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
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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
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Records
76° 52°
Seattle
68/50
ALMANAC
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Normals
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Today
WEDNESDAY
Pleasant with
some sun
Saturday, September 3, 2016
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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.
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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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Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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Milwaukee
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Minneapolis
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Nashville
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New Orleans
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New York City
78
Oklahoma City
85
Omaha
78
Philadelphia
79
Phoenix
104
Portland, ME
76
Providence
77
Raleigh
81
Rapid City
84
Reno
80
Sacramento
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St. Louis
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Salt Lake City
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San Diego
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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.”
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