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A2 THE BULLETIN • SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2021 The Bulletin How to reach us LOCAL, STATE & REGION DESCHUTES COUNTY CIRCULATION Didn’t receive your paper? Start or stop subscription? 541-385-5800 PHONE HOURS 6 a.m.-noon Tuesday-Friday 7 a.m.-noon Saturday-Sunday and holidays GENERAL INFORMATION COVID-19 data for Friday, Jan. 29: Deschutes County cases: 5,378 (43 new cases) Deschutes County deaths: 43 (zero new deaths) Crook County cases: 682 (5 new cases) Crook County deaths: 15 (zero new deaths) Jefferson County cases: 1,766 (16 new cases) Jefferson County deaths: 25 (zero new deaths) Oregon cases: 141,729 (976 new cases) Oregon deaths: 1,938 (8 new deaths) 130 (Dec. 4) LOCAL VACCINATIONS 18,289 Number of vaccinations given by St. Charles Healvth System 541-382-1811 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. 108 new cases 90 new cases 110 (Nov. 27) 100 90 80 70 60 50 (Nov. 14) 28 new cases (July 16) 40 31 new cases (Oct. 31) 30 16 new cases (Sept. 19) 9 new cases 20 (May 20) 1st case 120 (Jan. 1) 47 new cases 7-day average ONLINE BULLETIN GRAPHIC 129 new cases What is COVID-19? It’s an infection caused by a new coronavirus. 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They may not be reproduced without explicit prior approval. ý Lottery results can now be found on the second page of Sports. Legislative panel starts hearing policing bills BY PETER WONG Oregon Capital Bureau Five lawmakers on an Ore- gon House subcommittee will focus on the state’s policing practices and the people who carry them out. They have started public hearings on more than a dozen bills, some of them overlapping, that propose various changes to Oregon laws in the aftermath of last year’s death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minne- apolis police officer and the na- tionwide protests it triggered. One hearing on two bills is scheduled Monday. The subcommittee chair is Rep. Janelle Bynum, a Dem- ocrat from Clackamas who also leads the full House Judi- ciary Committee. Her District 51 straddles Multnomah and Clackamas counties. Bynum, while canvassing her district in 2018, was re- ported as a “suspicious person” to the Clackamas County Sher- iff’s Office. She is Black. Bynum said in opening the subcommittee’s work Jan. 25 that, while there is a need for a strong law enforcement pres- ence, “that is not the only way to keep the peace.” “I believe that our commu- nities need some healing and an update to our laws so that everyone can live and breathe freely,” she added. “That is the perspective I am bringing to this committee — a sense of fairness, a sense of balance and an opportunity to fix things that have been neglected for a long time — and make sure that all of us feel safer in our communities.” Bynum was the House co- leader of a joint interim com- mittee that produced half a dozen bills lawmakers passed during a special session June 24 to 26. But the committee conceded in its final report that more work needs to be done. While several bills now before the subcommittee emerged from the interim committee, the committee never voted on its final report because it was unable to meet in person in December due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Legislature’s lawyers ad- vised lawmakers that the Or- egon Constitution and House rules bar remote voting, unless the governor invokes a “cat- astrophic disaster” provision that has never been used since voters approved it in 2012. The two Republican mem- bers of the subcommittee are former police chiefs in small communities. All legislative panels are tak- ing testimony virtually or in writing because the Capitol has been closed to the public since March 18, 2020, at the start of the pandemic. They are not expected to amend or advance bills until the midpoint of the session in April, when they will start meeting in person. ý pwong@pamplinmedia.com Law-enforcement related bills, concepts Bills and bill concepts laid out at a subcommittee meeting Jan. 25. Bills • House Bill 2306: Requires police agencies to set up boards to re- view policies annually and report to the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. • House Bill 2928: Generally bars police use of tear gas or other chemical irritants, rubber bullets and sound cannons, except where police can justify physical use of force (proposed amended version). • House Bill 2929: Requires police to report misconduct by police in- volving “unjustified or excessive force,” discrimination, sexual harass- ment or misconduct, a crime, or violations of minimum standards. Also requires investigation of such reports. • House Bill 2930: Limits arbitrators’ decisions about alleged mis- conduct by police. Creates a commission on statewide law enforce- ment conduct and discipline. • House Bill 2931: Requires an arresting officer to provide for a medi- cal assessment of someone who is arrested. • House Bill 2932: Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to set up a statewide database on use of force incidents. • House Bill 2936: Requires Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to investigate the character of officer and reserve candi- dates before they are accepted for training at the state public safety academy in Salem. Also bars “racist behaviors” by police. Bill concepts • LC 743: Specifies that police uniforms must be blue; black is reserved for members of special weapons and tactics teams and correctional emergency response teams. Undercover officers are excepted. • LC 748:Requires a state database to contain any complaint filed against any public safety employee, whether or not it resulted in dis- ciplinary proceedings, and the status of and findings related to the complaint. A state database is maintained by the Department of Pub- lic Safety Standards and Training of suspensions and revocations of the certifications of officers. • LC 748: Requires police to report specified disciplinary actions to the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training. • LC 751: Creates a task force on statewide law enforcement disci- plinary standards. • LC 769: Creates a commission on statewide public employee stan- dards on conduct and discipline. • LC 3177: Bars disclosure of booking photos to publish-for-pay pub- lications. • LC 3178: Allows civil lawsuits against police agencies for improper disclosure of personal information of people who file complaints against police. LOCAL BRIEFING Mt. Bachelor, NeighborImpact hosting food drive Friday and Saturday Mt. Bachelor and the Redmond nonprofit NeighborImpact are teaming up for a food drive Friday and Saturday. Both are asking for nonperishable food items, especially canned meats and fish, soups and stews, canned vegetables, canned fruit and dry beans, according to a Mt. Bachelor press release. All the donated food will be added to Neigh- borImpact’s Food Bank, the release stated. To donate food, visit the Sun Country Tours location in Bend at 531 SW 13th St. The food drive will accept food from noon to 5 p.m. Fri- day and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, the release stated. — Bulletin staff report IDAHO Ban on legal marijuana advances BY KEITH RIDLER The Associated Press BOISE, Idaho — As legal weed becomes a reality in ev- ery corner of the U.S., Idaho is putting up a fight. State lawmakers on Friday moved forward with a pro- posed constitutional amend- ment that would bar the legal- ization of marijuana in Idaho in an attempt to keep the growing nationwide accep- tance of the drug from seep- ing across its borders. Idaho is one of only three states without some sort of policy allowing residents to possess products with even low amounts of THC, the psy- choactive chemical in mari- juana. Residents can cross the state border in nearly every direction and find themselves in a place where marijuana can be bought for recreational or medicinal purposes. Sup- port for medicinal marijuana use is growing among some residents — with legalization activists trying to get an initia- tive on the state ballot in 2022. It’s made some lawmakers in the deep-red state nervous, particularly after voters in the neighboring state of Oregon decriminalized the personal possession of drugs like her- oin, cocaine and metham- phetamine in November. Washington, Oregon, Mon- tana and Nevada have legal- ized recreational and medical marijuana, while Utah allows medical marijuana. Wyo- ming allows CBD products containing less than 0.3% of THC.