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Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Bend hospital
removes gender
ID from bracelets
$251,000 to settle a federal
lawsuit brought by an inmate
bitten by a dog.
The sheriff’s office,
though, didn’t admit liability
and said the dog was brought
in to remove an inmate who
was “threatening and throw-
ing and swinging things” at
deputies.
Disability Rights Ore-
gon plans to push for a bill
in the next legislative sea-
son that would curb the use
of police dogs in jails to
control inmates, saying in a
report that using a police dog
presents unnecessary risks of
harm to staff and inmates.
BEND (AP) — A hospital
in central Oregon has made
a small change that repre-
sented a huge difference for
its transgender patients: It
removed the gender designa-
tion from patient identifica-
tion bracelets.
The Bulletin newspaper in
Bend reports the St. Charles
Health System adopted the
change last month.
“It was something that
everybody felt had to be on
there because it was always
on there,” said Rebecca
Scrafford, a psychologist at
St. Charles who was involved
in recommending the change.
“It’s providing no benefit, but
it’s causing harm.”
The ID bracelet is designed
to provide caregivers an easy
way to identify patients based
on two distinct identifiers.
But staff generally check the
patient’s name and date of
birth, not gender.
Until recently, the hos-
pital’s record system did
not distinguish between sex
assigned at birth, legal gen-
der and gender identity. The
ID bracelet had been showing
the patient’s legal name and
sex assigned at birth.
“For a lot of those
patients, that didn’t match,
and that was distressing for
our patients,” Scrafford said.
“This is one little baby step in
providing affirming care that
Archdiocese pays
$7M to settle sex
abuse claims
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky
A firefighter ornament is visible on the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree as it makes
a stop at the Oregon State Capitol on its way to the nation’s capital on Tues-
day. The 80-foot Noble fir tree from the Willamette National Forest in Oregon
will be trucked to Washington, D.C., along part of the route of the Oregon Trail
in celebration of its 175th anniversary.
is probably the first visible
sign of many efforts that are
underway at St. Charles and
communitywide.”
Man tries to trade
cannabis for a car
ALBANY (AP) — Mari-
juana is legal in Oregon, but
you can’t barter it for a car.
Police in Albany, Ore-
gon, said Tuesday a car dealer
posted a Mazda SUV for sale
on an online marketplace on
Friday. A man contacted the
dealer and offered to trade
cannabis for the car.
Matthew Franks, 38,
of Independence, Oregon,
showed up at a parking-lot
rendezvous site that evening,
expecting to meet the car
seller. Instead, police were
waiting for him.
Police spokesman Brad
Liles says Franks was arrested
and put into the Linn County
Jail. Liles says police seized
5.4 pounds of marijuana, less
than the agreed-upon amount.
It wasn’t immediately clear
if Franks had an attorney.
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Though marijuana is legal
in Oregon, sales are regulated
and those in the business must
be licensed.
Advocacy group:
Ban dogs used to
control inmates
PORTLAND (AP) —
Disability Rights Oregon
wants the state to prohibit
law enforcement officers
from using police dogs in
jails to intimidate, control or
punish inmates.
The
Oregonian/Ore-
gonLive reports Columbia
County’s jail in St. Helens is
the only one in the state that
continues to allow the use of
police dogs against inmates,
despite recently paying
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SEATTLE (AP) — The
Seattle Archdiocese has
agreed to pay nearly $7 mil-
lion to settle claims by six
men who say priests sexually
abused them when they were
children.
The Seattle Times reports
the Seattle Archdiocese
admitted no wrongdoing as
part of the latest settlements,
all of which were paid within
the past two months.
The six men each claim
they were victimized as chil-
dren decades ago by priests
assigned to churches and
schools throughout West-
ern Washington. Each man
also claimed the archdiocese
failed to protect him from
abusive priests despite know-
ing the dangers they posed.
All of the accused priests
— Theodore Marmo, James
McGreal, Paul Conn, John
Forrester, Thomas Pitsch and
Michael Cody — were iden-
tified on the archdiocese’s list
of credibly accused priests
and clergy published in Jan-
uary 2016.
Pullman officers
face second suit
in three months
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP)
— Pullman police officers
are facing their second use-
of-force lawsuit in three
months.
KREM-TV reports the
most recent lawsuit was filed
Oct. 30 by Treshon Brough-
ton. The suit claims Brough-
ton was tased and beaten by
Pullman police officers Alex
Gordon, Shane Emerson and
10 other officers who have
not yet been identified.
The officers had not
responded to the lawsuit as
of Monday.
Broughton is suing the offi-
cers for unlawful seizure, false
arrest/false
imprisonment,
unreasonable/excessive force,
failure to inform, malicious
prosecution, assault/battery,
intentional and/or negligent
infliction of emotional distress,
defamation and false light.
Broughton is seeking a
jury trial.
The first lawsuit was filed
on Aug. 15, after a man says
officers broke his arm, dis-
located his elbow, tased him
and choked him until he
passed out.
Last year the hospital held
a transgender health care
training event for provid-
ers, and this year convened
an internal sexual orienta-
tion and gender identity work
group to guide initiatives
around welcoming transgen-
der patients.
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