WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
THURSDAY
TODAY
Mostly cloudy
Mainly cloudy
70° 49°
61° 45°
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Cloudy and breezy
with a shower
Remaining cloudy
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
57° 43°
60° 54°
62° 47°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
69° 46°
62° 46°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
73°
63°
82° (2003)
42°
39°
23° (1897)
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"
0.26"
0.56"
12.55"
9.21"
9.50"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
72°
65°
80° (2003)
0.00"
0.18"
0.30"
7.19"
6.34"
6.86"
SUN AND MOON
Oct 27
Bend
69/46
Burns
71/27
Full
Nov 3
7:16 a.m.
6:04 p.m.
5:53 a.m.
6:00 p.m.
Last
Nov 10
Caldwell
72/41
Hi
59
69
69
60
71
65
68
71
69
72
73
69
66
78
60
64
71
67
70
64
72
67
55
67
63
69
64
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
49
34
46
52
27
43
48
50
46
47
35
45
42
43
51
52
36
50
49
52
44
51
48
43
53
53
49
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c
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pc
pc
c
c
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pc
c
c
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c
pc
c
c
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c
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c
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c
c
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
Hi
57
68
57
57
63
63
55
60
62
65
61
65
62
60
56
59
71
62
61
57
59
57
52
60
57
61
62
Lo
43
35
37
47
29
38
43
42
46
40
32
40
39
42
45
46
45
47
45
46
36
45
41
38
47
47
38
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
W
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r
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r
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r
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
58
86
79
64
74
56
68
72
65
74
63
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Lo
48
72
60
53
54
38
55
51
48
64
54
W
c
pc
s
sh
pc
pc
c
s
c
pc
pc
Thu.
Hi
66
86
81
64
74
47
69
72
71
78
61
Lo
49
73
59
52
55
35
55
53
48
66
58
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pc
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WINDS
Medford
78/43
PRECIPITATION
Oct 19
John Day
72/47
Ontario
71/36
37°
38°
20° (1948)
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
New
First
Albany
67/51
Eugene
68/48
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
66° 46°
Spokane
Wenatchee
55/48
54/46
Tacoma
Moses
61/49
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 59/52
59/46
59/52
60/49
64/49
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
61/51
69/53 Lewiston
67/52
Astoria
66/45
59/49
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
64/52
Pendleton 65/43
The Dalles 69/46
70/49
66/51
La Grande
Salem
69/45
67/51
Corvallis
66/49
HIGH
63° 55°
Seattle
60/51
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
61° 43°
Today
SUNDAY
Cloudy with a little
rain
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
73/35
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today. Mainly clear tonight.
Eastern Washington: Mainly cloudy today;
rain in the north, near the Idaho border and
in the mountains.
Cascades: A thick cloud cover today; windy
across the north. A little rain tonight.
Western Washington: Cloudy today;
periods of rain, some heavy, but a little rain
across the south.
Northern California: Partly sunny today.
Mostly cloudy at the coast tonight; clear
elsewhere.
Thursday
SW 7-14
WSW 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Considerable cloudiness
today. Windy; a little rain across the north.
Today
SW 4-8
SW 6-12
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110s
high
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National Summary: Aside from thunderstorms streaming across Florida and heavy rain
pouring into Washington, sunshine and mild air will once again span most of the nation
today thanks to high pressure in control.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 100° in Palm Springs, Calif.
Low 14° in Lake George, Colo.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
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
Hi
78
70
70
70
68
74
73
69
75
74
70
72
83
76
68
86
31
65
87
83
70
79
73
84
77
86
Lo
52
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52
44
50
50
48
53
57
44
51
50
58
43
50
63
12
37
77
62
50
65
49
61
49
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Hi
75
74
72
72
76
77
74
71
81
74
71
72
83
75
71
87
24
70
86
85
72
81
77
88
81
78
Lo
52
50
55
49
51
50
44
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53
76
65
51
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57
62
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Today
Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
72
76
86
69
70
74
80
72
78
76
71
96
68
72
69
66
79
82
74
71
79
68
60
95
71
77
Lo
50
52
75
50
42
46
63
55
53
44
51
70
47
49
45
41
44
51
54
47
66
54
51
65
47
50
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pc
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Thur.
Hi
75
79
89
68
70
76
83
72
79
77
73
96
71
72
75
80
68
69
78
76
75
66
57
95
73
79
Lo
50
54
78
52
55
45
68
55
60
56
54
68
48
52
47
49
44
51
54
51
66
55
46
64
54
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Why was the target of DOJ profiling forced to leave?
“My experience with the state of
Oregon is that they do not take kindly
to people who assert their rights even
if they are correct in doing so.”
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
Revelations of Oregon
Department of Justice agents
monitoring social media
activity by the agency’s
head civil rights attorney
Erious Johnson Jr. for using
a Black Lives Matter hashtag
garnered international head-
lines in late 2015.
The incident triggered
an outside investigation of
DOJ in which agents were
found to have likely violated
laws barring the collection of
political speech. The scandal
also prompted edicts for
mandatory anti-discrimina-
tion and bias training for DOJ
employees.
Yet, two years later,
Johnson, one of the only
black employees at DOJ, also
is the only employee who
ultimately was forced out of
the agency in the wake of the
scandal.
Two of the three Cauca-
sian coworkers accused of
profiling him still work at the
justice department. A third
left the agency voluntarily to
take another job.
Johnson filed a federal
lawsuit against DOJ last year
for violation of his civil rights.
State officials agreed earlier
this month to pay Johnson
$205,000 to settle the case
on the condition that he leave
the Department of Justice. He
resigned the position effec-
tive Oct. 13 and is prohibited
from working for the state for
a period of at least five years.
“I just think it’s per se retal-
iation,” said Beth Creighton,
a civil rights lawyer who
represented Johnson. “First,
the state violates his rights,
and then they require him
to consent to continuing to
violate his rights, i.e., that
he won’t work for the state
in order to be compensated
for the violation he suffered
originally.”
Matt Shelby, spokesman
for the state Department of
Administrative
Services,
which handled the settlement,
— Beth Creighton,
civil rights lawyer who represented Erious Johnson Jr.
Courtesy photo
Erious Johnson Jr. was wrongly profiled by his co-
workers at the Oregon Department of Justice, but he
is the only employee to lose his job in the wake of the
scandal. Johnson resigned his post as part of a settle-
ment of his federal lawsuit against the state.
denied that the requirement
to resign was retaliation for
Johnson suing the state.
“When (the) DAS Risk
(Department) gets involved
in settlement discussions,
the focus is on making the
best business decision for
the state, not punishing
anybody,” Shelby wrote in
an email to the Pamplin/EO
Capital Bureau.
Government officials have
increasingly used forced
resignations in settlements to
discourage their employees
from suing state agencies,
Creighton said.
“My experience with the
state of Oregon is that they
do not take kindly to people
who assert their rights even if
they are correct in doing so,”
she said.
Shelby said he was not
permitted to discuss specifics
of Johnson’s case. However,
generally, state negotiators
“consider how any settlement
will impact the state in the
future — both in terms of
individuals filing claims
against us, and our ability to
negotiate them.”
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“A settlement agreement
represents our best effort to
settle the claim before us,
while mitigating the risk of
future liability,” Shelby said.
Attorney General Ellen
Rosenblum did not ask for
Johnson’s resignation, said
DOJ spokeswoman Kristina
Edmunson.
The
surveillance
of
Johnson’s and other Black
Lives Matter supporters’
social media activities wasn’t
revealed to the public until
Johnson’s wife, Nkenge
Harmon Johnson, the presi-
dent of the Urban League of
Portland, released a letter in
November 2015.
Agent James Williams,
the
investigator
who
tracked Johnson’s activities,
expressed concerns about
a tweet in which Johnson
posted a logo and lyrics from
hip-hop group Public Enemy.
The logo depicts an African
American in the crosshairs of
a firearm. Williams mistook
the logo as an image showing
a police officer in the cross-
hairs and thought Johnson
might be a threat to law
enforcement.
He shared his concerns
with his supervisor, Special
Agent in Charge David
Kirby. Kirby consulted
Darin Tweedt, director of the
Criminal Justice Division,
who recommended Williams
conduct a threat assessment
of Johnson and write a report.
Rosenblum fired Williams
last year for racially profiling
Johnson. Williams sued, and
a state arbitrator ruled in
August that Williams should
be reinstated to his job.
Meanwhile, Kirby volun-
tarily left his post in May
2016 to accept a position as
operations integrity director
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Tweedt was demoted
from his director’s position
to a senior assistant attorney
general in the DOJ Civil
Recovery Section. As a result,
his monthly salary decreased
from $14,523 to $11,346,
according to DAS.
Johnson had planned to
stay on with the justice depart-
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terms of the settlement were
reached, Creighton said. He is
now looking for another job.
Johnson played a prom-
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recommended anti-profiling
legislation, which lawmakers
approved earlier this year.
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