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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
FRIDAY
Partly sunny
Clouds and
sunshine
78° 49°
71° 48°
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
Partial sunshine
Mostly cloudy
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
66° 39°
66° 42°
65° 42°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
82° 51°
75° 49°
PENDLETON
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TEMPERATURE
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LOW
75°
72°
92° (1918)
47°
46°
27° (1911)
PRECIPITATION
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Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
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0.51"
8.07"
5.82"
8.93"
HERMISTON
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TEMPERATURE
HIGH
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74°
89° (1994)
48°
44°
31° (2015)
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New
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Oct 8
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Oct 15
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Wenatchee
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81/52
Tacoma
Moses
66/40
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 81/48
80/48
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66/39
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Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
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80/54 Lewiston
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Astoria
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Enterprise
Hermiston
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Pendleton 81/46
The Dalles 82/51
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La Grande
Salem
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Albany
Corvallis 72/42
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John Day
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Ontario
Eugene
Bend
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Caldwell
Burns
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Baker City
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Brookings
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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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Seattle
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ALMANAC
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MONDAY
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sunshine
Thursday, September 29, 2016
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Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
78/36
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today. A
shower in places tonight, except a shower
near the Idaho border.
Cascades: Partly sunny today. Partly cloudy
tonight. Cooler in the south tomorrow.
Northern California: Low clouds followed
by sunshine at the coast today; sunny
elsewhere.
Friday
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NW 6-12
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Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Clouds and sun today.
Partly cloudy tonight; a passing shower in
the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunshine and
patchy clouds today; very warm in the south
and upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: Intervals of clouds
and sunshine today. Clear to partly cloudy
tonight.
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SALEM — Following
recent reports of a public ofi-
cial using his ofice to solicit
a campaign contribution,
Rep. Greg Barreto, R-Cove,
submitted legislation Monday
seeking to make it explicitly
clear that public ofices may
not be used for campaign
purposes under Oregon’s
ethics statutes.
Barreto’s
legislative
concept seeks to clarify and
strengthen existing Oregon
ethics laws and make clear
that public oficials may not
use state funds, employees,
resources, time, computer
systems or anything that
might otherwise be consid-
ered a public asset for any
election campaign purpose,
including
fundraising.
Barreto’s drafted bill request
speciically cites using a state
email account to solicit a
campaign contribution as an
action that should
be prohibited under
state ethics laws.
“Recent events
have made clear
that
Oregon’s
ethics laws do not
go for enough in
preventing elected
oficials from using
their oficial ofices Barreto
for
campaign
purposes,” Barreto said. “This
legislation will help clarify
the laws already on the books
and make sure that our ethical
standards relect the expec-
tations of the Oregonians we
were sworn to serve.”
Coordinating fundraisers
and soliciting campaign
contributions through an
oficial public ofice is widely
considered an unethical
practice. Recently, Rep. Paul
Evans, D-Salem, was exposed
for using his state email
account to solicit a contribu-
tion to his election campaign
fund. Evans sent
the solicitation in
direct response to a
basic request for a
meeting related to
legislative business.
Emails related
to the incident
appear to show
Evans suggesting
that attending a
campaign fundraiser
may be a factor in whether or
not an organization requesting
a legislative meeting is granted
that request.
As currently interpreted,
Oregon’s ethics statutes do not
provide clear rules regarding
this type of behavior. Barreto’s
proposed legislation would
address this ethical loophole
and strengthen state laws to
relect the expectations of
Oregonians. According to a
recent study by the Center for
Public Integrity, Oregon ranks
as one of the worst states in
the nation for holding public
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Baltimore
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Birmingham
Boise
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Charleston, SC
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Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
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Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
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Indianapolis
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SALEM — A federal
lawsuit iled Tuesday to stop
the Oregon Department of
Human Services from placing
foster children temporarily
in hotels and ofices alleges
the practice inlicts emotional
trauma on kids and violates
their civil rights.
The lawsuit, iled in U.S.
District Court in Portland
on behalf of two children
represented by a temporary
court guardian, alleges DHS
denied them due process and
violated both federal and state
civil rights laws.
The plaintiffs seek class
action status for the lawsuit,
which would extend the
complaint to similarly placed
foster children.
The lawsuit also criticizes
the evidently recent trend
of DHS placing more of its
charges in hotels, and what
plaintiffs characterize as the
department’s broader history
of “placement instability” for
many children in its care.
“The state has removed
these children from their
homes despite not having any
home to move them to,” the
lawsuit states in an introduc-
tion. “As experts in the ield
agree, the state’s practice of
rendering foster children func-
tionally homeless is uncon-
scionable. It is also unlawful.”
A DHS spokeswoman,
Andrea Cantu-Schomus, said
in an email Tuesday that the
department does not comment
on pending litigation.
Department
oficials
have previously said that the
number of available beds
for children and youth in the
substitute care system has
decreased in recent years.
At least 63 children have
been placed in hotels in 2016,
with the vast majority of them
— 60 — placed since June,
according to the lawsuit.
The lawsuit claims the
department failed to meet its
obligation to the two children,
who are protected under the
Americans with Disabilities
Act, the Rehabilitation Act
and Oregon’s anti-discrim-
ination statute because of
their respective mental health
diagnoses.
Both Ed Johnson, an
attorney for the Oregon Law
Center, and Angela Sherbo,
an attorney for Youth Rights
Justice Partnership, referred
inquiries about the lawsuit to
Richard Vangelisti, the plain-
tiffs’ guardian ad litem.
Vangelisti represents two
children, ages 4 and 6, as a
temporary guardian in the
civil rights matters raised in
the lawsuit.
The 4-year-old, who has
been diagnosed with adjust-
ment disorder, was removed
from a foster home after more
than two years there, after she
had “very severe meltdowns”
or “rages.”
The 6-year-old, who,
according to the lawsuit,
entered DHS care after
repeated reports of abuse
by her mother, suffers from
several disorders, including
post-traumatic stress, anxiety
and adjustment disorders.
She was placed in at least
eight different locations and
had at least 20 caregivers in
her irst two months of DHS
custody, according to the
lawsuit.
Reiterating the claims of
the lawsuit, Vangelisti said
Tuesday that the condition
of the children was likely
to be exacerbated by the
impermanency of their living
arrangements.
“Obviously, children in
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oficials accountable. The
report, which was released
last year, ranked Oregon
44th out of 50 states in terms
of ethics and public records
laws. It says state oficials
and lawmakers have failed to
address profound weaknesses
revealed by the allegations
that forced former Gov. John
Kitzhaber from ofice in
February 2015.
The report, written by
Lee van der Voo, a freelancer
for The New York Times
who covered Kitzhaber’s
resignation, blasted the
Oregon Government Ethics
Commission for being slow
to respond to media reports
that Kitzhaber and his iancée,
Cylvia Hayes, might have
used their public roles to proit
Hayes’ private environmental
consulting business.
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be formally introduced at the
beginning of the 2017 legisla-
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Corrections
An article in Wednesday’s Fall Home Improvement
Guide omitted the full title of Pendleton master gardener Jim
Willis. Willis is a master gardener through the Oregon State
University Extension Service Master Gardener Program.
While in Pendleton, Port of Portland oficials told the
East Oregonian that there was no possibility that Pendleton
travelers would not have to go through airport security. But
on Wednesday, oficials said that Boutique may be able to
ly from the general aviation portion of the airport, which
would not require passengers go through security.
A member exchange story about Oregon’s public pension
deicit, published Sept. 22 in the East Oregonian, reported
erroneously the actions of Rukaiyah Adams, the vice chair
of the Oregon Investment Council. She made an impas-
sioned appeal for Oregon leaders to address the fund’s
deicit, not pass it onto taxpayers, and she did not break
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DHS sued to block placement of children in hotels, ofices
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
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foster care are some of the
most vulnerable children in
our society, and it’s likely that
perhaps as much as 75 percent
of children who are not placed
are suffering from some kind
of emotional, behavioral or
cognitive problem,” Vange-
listi said. “And so when DHS
chooses not to put them in
placement with a family
member, relative, caregiver or
certiied foster home, and then,
in turn, put them in a hotel or
an ofice, it exacerbates those
underlying problems that the
children have.”
Vangelisti said that it’s
possible that the number of
Oregon children in these
short-term placements is
underreported, based on
information DHS has released
publicly and on news reports
this summer.
The lawsuit states another
child — not a plaintiff in the
lawsuit — was placed in a
juvenile detention facility in
Deschutes County for almost
a month, despite having no
criminal charges, and that the
Washington County DHS
branch converted part of its
visitation center in the district
ofice so children could stay
there overnight.
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