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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)
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VACCINATIONS
18,289
Number of vaccinations
given by St. Charles
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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
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What is COVID-19? It’s an infection caused by a new
coronavirus. Symptoms include fever, coughing and
shortness of breath. This virus can be fatal.
7 ways to help limit its spread: 1. Wash hands often
with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. 2. Avoid
touching your face. 3. Avoid close contact with sick
people. 4. Stay home. 5. In public, stay 6 feet from others
and wear a mask. 6. Cough into your elbow. 7. Clean and
disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces.
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at St. Charles
Bend on Tuesday: 18 (1 in ICU).
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SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
10
(March 11)
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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.
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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.