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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
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0.92"
12.63"
9.66"
12.43"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
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39°
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11:58 a.m.
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Enterprise
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Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
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La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
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Medford
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SUN AND MOON
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Bend
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Burns
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PRECIPITATION
Dec 20
John Day
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Ontario
29/9
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24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
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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
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SSE 4-8
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Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
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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.
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SALEM — Attorney General
Ellen Rosenblum has proposed
legislation for 2017 that requires
law enforcement officers to
collect information on race during
all traffic and pedestrian stops,
expand bias training for officers
and reduce sentences for certain
drug crimes.
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
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Chicago
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AG proposes collecting traffic stop race data
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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.”
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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.
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