Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (May 24, 2018)
WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast FRIDAY TODAY A t-storm around this afternoon Not as warm 84° 57° 80° 53° SATURDAY SUNDAY A thick cloud cover Intervals of clouds and sun PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 78° 55° 83° 57° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 86° 56° 90° 60° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 86° 72° 95° (2001) 57° 49° 23° (1903) 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" 0.65" 0.96" 6.07" 9.14" 6.07" Corvallis 74/54 through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 91° 74° 101° (1951) 57° 49° 30° (1964) New 5:15 a.m. 8:29 p.m. 3:22 p.m. 3:12 a.m. First Bend 75/53 June 6 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 Hi 63 76 75 60 76 72 74 81 90 77 74 75 73 82 61 64 84 89 84 76 78 75 81 74 75 85 88 Lo 51 51 53 50 49 50 53 54 60 55 50 52 49 58 49 55 59 58 57 54 52 53 59 47 53 62 57 W pc t t c pc t pc t pc t pc t t t pc pc pc pc t pc t pc pc t pc pc pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Fri. Hi 61 76 63 56 70 72 68 76 86 72 61 74 72 68 58 60 85 87 80 71 68 70 82 70 70 81 87 Lo 51 50 42 47 43 52 43 51 56 50 41 52 49 47 47 51 60 57 53 50 41 45 54 47 48 55 54 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W s t t c c t s t pc t t t t t s pc pc pc pc s t s pc t s pc pc WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 91 93 82 73 84 72 76 77 73 67 77 Lo 64 84 64 55 53 50 56 61 55 58 67 W c s s t pc pc t pc s pc pc Fri. Hi 90 94 83 71 82 64 78 78 74 67 79 Lo 65 85 66 56 52 43 62 62 53 53 66 W s pc pc pc pc s t s pc pc pc WINDS (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 74/50 REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Times of clouds and sun today. A couple of showers in the south tonight. Eastern and Central Oregon: Times of sun and clouds today; a thunderstorm in spots. Eastern Washington: Times of clouds and sun today. Partly cloudy tonight. Cascades: Clouds and sun today; a thun- derstorm in parts of the area, but dry across the north. Northern California: Mostly cloudy today; however, sunnier in the interior mountains. 1 www.eastoregonian.com 5 8 8 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group 2 The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. SUBSCRIPTION RATES East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and postal holidays, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. 4 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ Friday WSW 7-14 W 6-12 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. June 13 June 20 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays Today WSW 7-14 W 6-12 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Western Washington: Partly sunny today. May 29 Caldwell 83/57 Medford 82/58 0.00" 0.91" 0.83" 4.96" 6.31" 4.82" SUN AND MOON John Day 77/55 Ontario 84/59 Burns 76/49 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 Albany 73/54 Eugene 74/53 TEMPERATURE Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Full Last 89° 62° Spokane Wenatchee 81/59 87/60 Tacoma Moses 70/51 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 87/55 78/55 64/49 71/48 88/57 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 70/50 85/62 Lewiston 90/59 Astoria 84/60 63/51 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 76/54 Pendleton 72/50 The Dalles 90/60 84/57 85/60 La Grande Salem 75/52 75/53 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 85° 58° Seattle 71/53 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 79° 54° Today MONDAY Nice with variable clouds 72° 50° Thursday, May 24, 2018 Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation Manager: Marcy Rosenberg • 541-966-0828 • mrosenberg@eastoregonian.com -10s -0s 0s showers t-storms 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Pleasant, dry weather will grace the northeastern U.S. today. Downpours will drench the Southeast, while gusty storms slam the northern Plains. The wildfire threat in the Southwest will persist. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 100° in Presidio, Texas Low 26° in Leadville, 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 88 83 73 82 81 89 82 66 83 87 84 80 91 83 84 96 54 90 85 89 84 85 87 94 87 68 Lo 59 70 58 58 56 70 59 56 70 61 64 57 72 54 58 67 41 64 74 70 61 70 67 71 69 57 W s t s s pc t pc s t s pc s pc s s s sh t pc pc s t pc s t pc Fri. Hi 90 78 76 85 84 84 84 87 83 88 88 85 94 85 88 98 60 90 85 91 88 83 86 90 88 68 Lo 60 68 62 67 57 69 57 66 71 65 69 65 73 57 65 67 42 63 74 72 67 71 66 64 69 57 Today W s t s s pc t pc s c pc pc s s pc s s c c s t s t t s t sh 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 87 90 82 79 90 90 88 80 87 88 82 99 62 73 84 81 76 72 88 85 66 64 71 98 83 88 Lo 65 72 74 61 71 67 75 60 67 69 59 74 51 53 63 55 52 53 69 59 60 55 53 64 62 68 W s pc t pc pc s t s pc pc s s s s pc pc pc pc s s pc c pc s s pc Fri. Hi 89 89 82 85 89 87 86 86 90 92 85 99 83 83 84 84 60 66 87 87 69 65 70 98 85 93 Lo 71 72 74 63 69 68 74 67 68 68 66 70 62 64 67 55 46 53 71 59 61 54 50 64 67 66 W pc pc c t pc pc t s s pc s s pc s pc s t t pc s sh t s s s t Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. ADVERTISING Publisher and Revenue Director: Christopher Rush 541-278-2669 • crush@eastoregonian.com Advertising Services: Grace Bubar 541-276-2214 • gbubar@eastoregonian.com Multimedia Consultants: • Kimberly Macias 541-278-2683 • kmacias@eastoregonian.com • Jeanne Jewett 541-564-4531 • jjewett@eastoregonian.com • Dayle Stinson 541-278-2670 • dstinson@eastoregonian.com • Angela Treadwell 541-966-0827 • atreadwell@eastoregonian.com • Audra Workman 541-564-4538 • aworkman@eastoregonian.com 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 or 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 at 541-966-0818. • To submit engagements, weddings and anniversaries: email rstruthers@eastoregonian.com or visit www.eastoregonian. com/community/announcements • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com Business Office Manager: Janna Heimgartner 541-966-0822 • jheimgartner@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com Amazon urged not to sell facial recognition tool to police By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE — Amazon’s decision to market a power- ful face recognition tool to police is alarming privacy advocates, who say the tech giant’s reach could vastly accelerate a dystopian future in which camera-equipped officers can identify and track people in real time, whether they’re involved in crimes or not. It’s not clear how many law enforcement agencies have purchased the tool, called Rekognition, since its launch in late 2016 or since its update last fall, when Amazon added capabilities that allow it to identify peo- ple in videos and follow their movements almost instantly. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office in Oregon has used it to quickly com- pare unidentified suspects in surveillance images to a data- base of more than 300,000 booking photos from the county jail — a common use of such technology around the country — while the Orlando Police Department in Florida is testing whether it can be used to single out persons-of-interest in public spaces and alert officers to their presence. The American Civil Lib- erties Union and other pri- vacy advocates on Tuesday asked Amazon to stop mar- keting Rekognition to gov- ernment agencies, saying they could use the technol- ogy to “easily build a system to automate the identifica- tion and tracking of anyone.” That could have poten- tially dire consequences for minorities who are already arrested at disproportionate AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File In this 2015 file photo, Seattle police officer Debra Pelich, right, wears a video cam- era on her eyeglasses as she talks with Alex Legesse before a small community gathering in Seattle. While the Seattle Police Department bars officers from using real-time facial recognition in body camera video, privacy activists are concerned that a proliferation of the technology could turn the cameras into tools of mass surveillance. The ACLU and other organizations on Tuesday asked Amazon to stop selling its facial-recognition tool, called Rekognition, to law enforcement agencies. rates, immigrants who may be in the country illegally or political protesters, they said. “People should be free to walk down the street with- out being watched by the government,” the groups wrote in a letter to Amazon on Tuesday. “Facial recogni- tion in American communi- ties threatens this freedom.” In an emailed state- ment, Amazon Web Ser- vices stressed that it requires all of its customers to com- ply with the law and to be responsible in the use of its products. The statement said some agencies have used the pro- gram to find abducted peo- ple, and amusement parks have used it to find lost chil- dren. British broadcaster EARTHLINK INTERNET HIGH SPEED INTERNET Sky News used Rekogni- tion to help viewers iden- tify celebrities at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle last weekend. Amazon’s technology isn’t that different from what face recognition com- panies are already selling to law enforcement agencies. But its vast reach and its interest in recruiting more police departments — at extremely low cost — are troubling, said Clare Garvie, an associate at the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown University Law Center. “This raises very real questions about the ability to remain anonymous in public spaces,” Garvie said. While police might be able to videotape public demonstrations, face rec- ognition is not merely an extension of photography but a biometric measure- ment — more akin to police walking through a demon- stration and demanding identification from everyone there, she said. Some police depart- ments, including Seattle, have policies that bar the use of real-time facial recogni- tion in body camera videos. Amazon released Rekog- nition in late 2016, and the sheriff’s office in Washing- ton County, west of Port- land, became one of its first law enforcement agency customers. A year later, deputies Get Connected for as low as Get Connected for as low as 14.95/mo. $ 49.99/mo. For the first 3 months (Offers varv bv speed & location) first 12 months HyperLinkh High-Speed Internet Satellite Internet Connection speeds up to 75 Mbps* What you get with HughesNet Satellite Internet: ! 50X faster than DSL!!** ! High speed with fiber optic technology ! Fast speeds up to 25 Mbps ! Available everywhere ! Fast download time for streaming videos, music and more! ! Larger data allowance (up to 50 GB per month) Speed performance allowing vou to stream & download shows, music, photos, large files and more on multiple devices HughesNet is a registered trademark of Hughes Network Systems, LLC, an EchoStar company. The HughsNet Gen5 service plans are designed to deliver download speeds of 25 Mbps and upload speeds of 3 Mbps, but individual customers may experience different speeds at different times of the day. Speeds and uninterrupted use are not guaranteed and may vary based on a variety of factors including: the configuration of your computer, the number of concurrent users, network of Internet congestion, the capabilities and content of the websites you are accessing, network management practices as deemed necessary, and other factors. When you connected to HughesNet service using Wi-Fi, your experience will vary based on your proximity to the Wi-Fi source and the strength of the signal. *Speeds may vary depending on distance, line quality and number of devices used concurrently. Subject to availability. Some prices shown may be introductory offers. Equipment fees, taxes and other fees and restrictions may apply. **Speed comparison based on 1.5 Mbps DSL. DENTAL Itsuratce Physiciats Mutual Itsuratce Compaty A less expetsive way to help get the dettal care you deserve If you’re over 50, you can get coverage for about No wait for preventive care and no deductibles – $1 a day* you could get a checkup tomorrow Keep your own dentist! You can go to any dentist Coverage for over 350 procedures including you want cleanings, exams, fi llings, crowns…even dentures NO annual or lifetime cap o n the cash benefi ts you can receive CONTACT YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED RETAILER 855-977-9436 Corrections DONATE YOUR CAR FREE TOWING TAX DEDUCTIBLE YouTube this month, Ranju Das, who leads Amazon Rekognition, said the com- pany would receive feeds from the cameras, search them against photos of peo- ple being sought by law enforcement and notify police of any hits. “It’s about recogniz- ing people, it’s about track- ing people, and then it’s about doing this in real time, so that the law enforce- ment officers ... can be then alerted in real time to events that are happening,” he said. The Orlando Police Department said in an email that it “is not using the tech- nology in an investigative capacity or in any public spaces at this time.” The testing has been lim- ited to eight city-owned cameras and a handful of officers who volunteered to have their images used to see if the technology works, Sgt. Eduardo Bernal wrote in an email Tuesday. “As this is a pilot and not being actively used by OPD as a surveillance tool, there is no policy or procedure regarding its use as it is not deployed in that manner,” Bernal wrote. The privacy advocates’ letter to Amazon followed public records requests from ACLU chapters in Califor- nia, Oregon and Florida. More than two dozen orga- nizations signed it, includ- ing the Electronic Fron- tier Foundation and Human Rights Watch. 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. Imagine The Difference You Can Make 1-844-533-9173 Enjov big-time Internet speeds without spending big bucks! were using it about 20 times a day — for example, to identify burglary suspects in store surveillance foot- age. Last month, the agency adopted policies governing its use, noting that officers in the field can use real-time face recognition to identify suspects who are unwilling or unable to provide their own ID, or if someone’s life is in danger. “We are not mass-col- lecting. We are not putting a camera out on a street cor- ner,” said Deputy Jeff Tal- bot, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office. “We want our local community to be aware of what we’re doing, how we’re using it to solve crimes — what it is and, just as importantly, what it is not.” It cost the sheriff’s office just $400 to load 305,000 booking photos — which are already public records — into the system and $6 a month in fees to con- tinue the service, accord- ing to an email obtained by the ACLU under a public records request. Last year, the Orlando, Florida, Police Department announced it would begin a pilot program relying on Amazon’s technology to “use existing city resources to provide real-time detec- tion and notification of per- sons-of-interest, further increasing public safety.” Orlando has a network of public safety cameras, and in a presentation posted to FREE Information Kit Help Prevent Blindness Get A Vision Screening Annually 1-877-599-0125 Ask About A FREE 3 Day Vacation Voucher To Over 20 Destinations!!! Or www.dental50plus.com/25 *Individual plan. Product not available in MN, MT, NH, NM, RI, VT, WA. Acceptance guaranteed for one insurance policy/certificate of this type. Contact us for complete details about this insurance solicitation. This specific offer is not available in CO, NY; call 1-800-969-4781 or respond for similar offer. Certificate C250A (ID: C250E; PA: C250Q); Insurance Policy P150 (GA: P150GA; NY: P150NY; OK: P150OK; TN: P150TN) 6096E-0917 MB17-NM008Ec
