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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY A little morning rain; cloudy Partly sunny 44° 24° 36° 22° THURSDAY FRIDAY A little snow and sleet Mostly cloudy with a little snow PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 36° 33° 37° 25° 31° 20° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 37° 22° 46° 24° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 41° 39° 62° (1917) 18° 25° -7° (1984) 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 0.00" 1.33" 0.92" 12.63" 9.66" 12.43" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 37° 39° 60° (1933) 7:32 a.m. 4:13 p.m. none 11:58 a.m. First Full Jan 5 Jan 12 Caldwell 31/13 Hi 52 27 39 52 36 36 49 44 46 42 40 38 36 46 49 53 29 45 44 50 40 49 38 40 50 46 45 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 Lo 36 3 13 39 5 13 28 22 24 15 16 16 14 30 35 34 9 25 24 31 8 29 24 12 32 29 21 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Wed. 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W c t s pc pc pc c sh c s pc Hi 45 77 51 51 71 35 43 63 54 77 61 Lo 29 68 41 35 46 27 39 43 46 67 52 W pc t pc sh pc sh pc c r s s WINDS Medford 46/30 0.00" 0.87" 0.94" 8.77" 6.68" 9.44" SUN AND MOON Dec 28 Bend 39/13 Burns 36/5 PRECIPITATION Dec 20 John Day 42/15 Ontario 29/9 9° 27° -5° (1984) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Last New Albany 50/28 Eugene 49/28 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 35° 21° Spokane Wenatchee 38/24 41/24 Tacoma Moses 49/32 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 42/24 39/24 49/35 49/32 45/21 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 49/32 46/29 Lewiston 47/25 Astoria 41/25 52/36 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 50/31 Pendleton 36/13 The Dalles 46/24 44/24 46/26 La Grande Salem 38/16 49/29 Corvallis 49/31 HIGH 39° 27° Seattle 50/37 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 35° 32° Today SATURDAY A thick cloud cover Tuesday, December 20, 2016 Today Wednesday WSW 10-20 WSW 10-20 N 3-6 SSE 4-8 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 40/16 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Cloudy today with rain tapering off ; watch for fl ooding. Breezy across the north. Eastern and Central Oregon: Snow today, accumulating 1-2 inches in central parts and the upper Treasure Valley. Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today with showers, mainly early. Mostly cloudy tonight. Eastern Washington: A bit of snow in the north and mountains today; a bit of snow and rain near the Idaho border. Cascades: Showers around today; snow, accumulating 1-3 inches in the south. Northern California: A little rain today; however, a snow shower in the interior mountains. 0 0 1 1 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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The proposal came out of recommendations by a task force on preventing racial profiling, chaired by the attorney general. “It is only in the aggregation of data that we are able to observe patterns of profiling behavior,” Rosenblum said Wednesday, Dec. 14, during a joint hearing of the House and Senate judiciary committees. Any traffic stop for speeding “can be justified in isolation as a fair exercise of officer discretion, but across hundreds, or even thousands of stops, patterns can become visible governing who is stopped, who is searched and who is let off without a warning, or with.” The proposal would require officers to record the race of the person stopped and when a citation or warning are issued, a search is conducted or a person is arrested. The data would be sent to the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission for analysis “... It’s a good window into under- standing if disparities exist ... — Ken Barone, Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy of enforcement disparities and published in an annual report. The requirement would take effect in 2018 for law enforcement agen- cies with 100 or more officers and later for smaller agencies. Gov. Kate Brown signed House Bill 2002 in mid-2015, making Oregon the 31st state to prohibit profiling by law enforcement. The law requires law enforcement agencies to report racial profiling complaints to the Law Enforce- ment Contacts Policy and Data Review Committee (LECC). The LECC will make its first of what are intended to be annual reports on the complaints in January. That committee also analyzes police stop data voluntarily submitted by the Corvallis Police Department. The data collection is based on a profiling project in Connecticut, which has a population and law enforcement force of similar size to Oregon’s. Lawmakers are eyeing the Connecticut project as a potential model for Oregon. Ken Barone, policy and research specialist at Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy at Central Connecticut State University, manages the law enforcement racial profiling project in that state. The five-year-old project started when the Connecticut General Assembly passed a law requiring the electronic collection of information on all traffic stops in the state and an annual analysis of the data. “If you want to try to understand the patterns that are occurring and basic interactions between the community and law enforcement it’s a good window into understanding if disparities exist and then being able to drill down to understand why those disparities exist,” Barone told Oregon lawmakers Dec. 14. Collecting the data takes less than 60 seconds of a stop and captures 26 data points, he said. Since the law took effect, the number of annual racial profiling complaints in the state has dwin- dled from 25 to six in 2015, he said. Oregon had about 28 racial profiling complaints in the past year, according to the LECC. In Connecticut, researcher analyze stop data on six indicators. Agencies that show disparities in three to six of those indicators 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s high warm front stationary front low Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 91° in Fort Myers, Fla. Low -29° in Antero Reservoir, Colo. 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Temperature bands are highs for the day. are given further scrutiny, Barone said. “One of the things I don’t think we anticipated is the degree to which this data is helping us, not only understand racial disparities and the factors that are contrib- uting to those disparities, but they’re providing us a really great window into law enforcement practices in general,” he said. For instance, in Waterbury, Conn., researchers noticed there was a significant number of registration-related motor vehicle enforcement in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods. The police chief told researchers that officers targeted those neighborhoods because they were socioeconomically disadvantaged and as such, were more likely to have residents who couldn’t afford to register their vehicles. In fact, in Connecticut, whites are 6 percent more likely to not register their vehicles, Barone said. “This wasn’t law enforcement officers going out there and deciding they didn’t like partic- ular people and therefore they are going to enforce a certain law against them as a result of that,” he said. “This was anytime as an officer I’ve been told to go look for unregistered vehicles I go into the area that I have always believed to be the most fruitful to find unregistered vehicles.” Classified & Legal Advertising 1-800-962-2819 or 541-278-2678 classifieds@eastoregonian.com or legals@eastoregonian.com NEWS • To submit news tips and press releases: • call 541-966-0818 • fax 541-276-8314 • email news@eastoregonian.com • To submit community events, calendar items and Your EO News: email community@eastoregonian.com or call Tammy Malgesini at 541-564-4539 or Renee Struthers in at 541-966-0818. • To submit engagements, weddings and anniversaries: email rstruthers@eastoregonian.com or visit www.eastoregonian. com/community/announcements • To submit a Letter to the Editor: mail to Managing Editor Daniel Wattenburger, 211 S.E. 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 CTUIR awarded $375k to ensure safe transport of radioactive waste By ANNETTE CAREY Tri-City Herald The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation has been awarded $375,000 to spend under a five-year coop- erative agreement to coordinate activities ensuring safe transportation of radioactive waste across its lands. The money was awarded by the Depart- ment of Energy’s Carlsbad Field Office for shipments of waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. The repository has accepted boxes and drums of Hanford waste contaminated with plutonium in the past. The national repository has been shut down since February 2014 after a truck caught fire underground and then, in an unrelated incident, a drum of waste burst and spread contamination. When the repos- itory reopens, it is expected to take waste from several other DOE sites before more Hanford waste is shipped. The cooperative agreement focuses on training and exercises for the Umatillas to prepare emergency responders and emer- gency management for safe transportation of waste across Umatilla lands. Activities include transportation moni- toring, emergency response planning, emer- gency response training and exercises, and public participation in safety program activ- ities. Some equipment may be purchased. BRIEFLY Freezing weather shuts down nuclear power plant RICHLAND, WASH. — The nuclear power plant near Richland shut down unexpectedly Sunday morning due to freezing tempera- tures. Equipment malfunctioned at the Bonneville Power Administration’s Ashe Substation near the Columbia Generating Station, which is operated by Energy Northwest. Cold weather caused the loss of the 500 kilovolt line connecting the nuclear plant’s main output transformers to the substation, according to Energy Northwest. The nuclear plant’s output breakers responded as they are designed to perform and separated the plant from any potential grid transients. Columbia’s operating crew then successfully stabilized the plant. “It’s unfortunate that this happened while we were on our way to closing out what still may be a record generation year,” said Bob Schuetz, plant general manager at Columbia. “The plant remains safe, and we anticipate being back on the grid once we have more thoroughly reviewed what caused the BPA transmission event,” he said. — Tri-City Herald People who contacted undercover officers and arranged payment for sexual acts were arrested at a hotel in the Ontario area. Those arrested were from Oregon, Idaho, Nevada and Pennsylvania. Most were charged with misdemeanor commercial sexual solicitation. They were booked into the Malheur County Jail. Undercover sex trafficking sting in Oregon nets 15 arrests Rogue Valley population grows, but housing doesn’t VALE (AP) — Authorities in southeast Oregon say 15 people have been arrested in connection with an undercover sex trafficking operation. Malheur County Sheriff Brian Wolfe said in a statement Saturday that the Malheur County Sheriff’s Office and police departments in Oregon and Idaho conducted the operation within the past week. Investigators posted online ads to known sex trafficking websites. MEDFORD (AP) — Figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show that Oregon’s Jackson County has experienced a population boom, but the housing market hasn’t kept up. The Mail Tribune reports that the census shows that the southern Oregon county’s population reached 200,000 in 2008 and interim estimates place the current population at close to 215,000. Meanwhile, the number of houses available for sale in the county declines monthly, the median price for existing home sales is up and the rental market is tighter than ever. Building permit numbers are slightly higher than in the past, but nowhere near the levels seen before the real estate bubble burst. Judge cancels review of Portland police reforms amid appeals PORTLAND (AP) — A U.S. District Court judge has canceled a January hearing about Portland police oversight reforms as the city pursues appeals on the matter. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that Portland city attor- neys had been set to report on Jan. 31 on how the city intends to comply with a federal settlement concerning community oversight of police reforms, but U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon has canceled the hearing. The decision comes after the city requested to have the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determine whether Simon has the authority to set additional court hearings. Simon says he will let the appellate court resolve the city’s petition for review before scheduling any future hearings. The hearings stem from the city’s settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice regarding mandated reforms to police training, policies and oversight. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. December 26 th Saager’s Shoe Shop Up to 50% Off Milton-Freewater, OR
