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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2017
County expands veterans services as strike continues Florence City Recorder
The Lane County Board of
Commissioners met in execu-
tive session on Sunday, fol-
lowed by several hours of con-
tinued mediation until 12 a.m.
on Monday morning.
Lane County and AFSCME
will continue in mediation this
week. As of 4 p.m. on Friday,
Oct. 20, some 20 percent of
AFSCME members have cho-
sen to return to work. This has
enabled Lane County to restore
several services that were
impacted by the strike:
• Behavioral Health will
return to normal business
hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday.
• Veterans Services will
return to normal business hours
and offer full walk-in services,
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday.
• The Land Management
Division is now able to offer its
customers building permit and
land use application consulta-
tions during its reduced cus-
tomer service hours of 9 a.m. to
1 p.m., Monday through
Friday.
• Parole and Probation will
extend its main office lobby
hours to 9 a.m. to noon, and 1
to 4 p.m., Monday through
Friday.
• The RiverStone
Community Health Center in
Springfield has reopened and is
offering full adult clinical serv-
ices Monday through Friday
from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Methadone
Treatment
Program
group
therapy
Two Oregon children recovered during
recent FBI sex trafficking sting
The
FBI’s
Child
Exploitation Task Force, work-
ing with a number of local and
state partner agencies in
Oregon, recovered two child
sex trafficking victims as part
of a national and international
operation in the past week.
The FBI and the National
Center for Missing and
Exploited Children (NCMEC)
spearhead the “Operation
Cross Country” initiative to
recover minor sex trafficking
victims and to target the crimi-
nal enterprises responsible for
the commercial sex trafficking
of children.
Across the United States,
FBI task forces recovered more
than 80 minors and arrested
120 traffickers. In all, 55 FBI
field offices, working with
hundreds of local and state law
enforcement partners took part
in this, the 11th iteration of
Operation Cross Country
(OCC). International partners
included Canada, the United
Kingdom, Thailand, Cambodia
and the Philippines.
The Oregon operations
resulted in:
• Portland — Two minor sex
trafficking victims recovered
in Portland. One of these two
just recently turned 18 but dis-
closed victimization that began
when she was a minor; nine
adult prostitutes were arrested
and/or cited.
Law enforcement and social
service providers offered assis-
tance to all contacted.
• Eugene — Five adult pros-
titutes contacted. Law enforce-
ment and social service
providers offered assistance to
all contacted.
• Salem — One arrest,
Terrence Martell Williams, age
34, on a state charge of pro-
moting prostitution. He was
arrested by Salem Police
Department; six adult prosti-
tutes were arrested and/or
cited.
Law enforcement and social
service providers offered assis-
tance to all contacted.
The FBI’s victim specialists
work with state protective
service agencies and social
service providers to offer those
minors recovered medical
assistance, mental health coun-
seling or other support as need-
ed.
Adult prostitutes arrested by
local law enforcement partners
assisting in Operation Cross
Country are also given the
option to receive social servic-
es.
“It can be easy to think that
selling sex with children is so
corrupt, so depraved that it
couldn’t possibly happen in my
town, my neighborhood, my
school. But, as we find out
every time we recover a child,
these victims are here and their
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needs are very real,” said
Loren Cannon, Special Agent
in Charge of the FBI in
Oregon. “These kids are every-
one’s responsibility, and they
are counting on us — the FBI,
local law enforcement, the
community — to come togeth-
er to give them a chance at a
life we would all wish for our
children.”
Nationally and internation-
ally, investigators staged oper-
ations in a number of locations,
including casinos, hotels and
truck stops as well as on street
corners and via the Internet.
With regards to the Oregon
operations, specifics will not
be released as to the stings,
including locations, to protect
the integrity of future opera-
tions.
“We were honored to join
this massive effort to hold
offenders accountable,” said
Clackamas County Sheriff
Craig Roberts. “We’ve made
child exploitation a major
enforcement focus at our
agency, with initiatives and
partnerships that include our
Child Abuse Team, the Inter-
agency Child Exploitation
Prevention Team (INTER-
CEPT), A Safe Place Family
Justice Center and our annual
Child Abuse Family Violence
Summit.
“We salute the FBI, our
deputies and partner agencies
in their large-scale effort to
bring these individuals to jus-
tice.”
For more information, con-
tact Beth Anne Steele, FBI
Public
Affairs,
Portland
Division at 503-460-8099.
resumed today.
Visit www.lanecounty.org
for a list of service changes
occurring during the AFSCME
employees strike; it will be
updated regularly.
Community members with
questions about affected serv-
ices are encouraged to call the
hotline at 541-682-3977.
The hotline is open between
9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday
through Friday, until the strike
ends.
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mix
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at the Oregon Coast Humane
Society.
Call 541-997-4277 or stop
by the shelter at 2840
Rhododendron Drive to
claim.
Visit OCHS at oregoncoast
humanesociety.org
installed on board
The Oregon Association of Commerce (Ex-Officio) and
Municipal Recorders (OAMR) many others.
recently
installed
In addition, Weese
Florence
City
serves as the staff rep-
Recorder/ Economic
resentative of the
Development
Public Arts Comm-
Coordinator Kelli
ittee, helping establish
Weese, as the 2017-
a strategy and proto-
2018 OAMR Second
cols for Florence’s
Vice President.
new program.
Weese received
Weese has worked
the oath of office at Kelli Weese for the City of
the
association’s
Florence since May
annual conference banquet 2008 and has served in multi-
held at the Best Western Agate ple other capacities in addition
Beach Inn on Sept. 22.
to city recorder, including
Weese has been an active Geographic
Information
member of OAMR since 2010. Technician
and
Interim
She has served on the Records Planning Director.
Management
Committee,
She is a certified planner
Internet Committee and and has earned her city AICP
Conference Committee.
status.
She is also very involved in
OAMR is a professional
her local community. She organization dedicated to pro-
serves on the board/committee moting governmental relation-
for the local Downtown ships and providing education-
Revitalization
Team/Main al and training opportunities
Street USA, City Club, for more than 200 Oregon city
Florence Area Chamber of recorders statewide.
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