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Oregon cases: 165,012 (441 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,383 (2 new deaths)
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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.
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stay 6 feet from others and wear a cloth face covering or mask.
6. Cover a cough or sneeze with a tissue or cough into your elbow.
7. Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces.
(Nov. 27)
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60
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St. Charles Bend: 6 (2 in ICU)
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State’s top court floats redistricting extension
Associated Press
SALEM — The Oregon Supreme
Court has floated a plan that would
give state lawmakers an extension on a
deadline to redraw electoral boundaries
because of pandemic-related delays in
U.S. Census data.
House Speaker Tina Kotek and Sen-
ate President Peter Courtney earlier this
month asked the state’s high court to ex-
tend the Legislature’s redistricting dead-
line, but Secretary of State Shemia Fagan
has said the new electoral map can be re-
drawn without the delay and remain fair
and equitable. The current deadline, set
by the Oregon Constitution, is July 1.
The high court’s proposal, which was
laid out in court filings last week, was first
reported by Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Under the tentative plan, lawmak-
ers would have until Oct. 15 to redraw
legislative districts, giving them some
time to analyze Census data and com-
What is redistricting?
The once-a-decade process of redraw-
ing legislative and congressional districts
helps dictate who holds political control
of the state for the next 10 years.
plete new boundaries for Oregon’s 60
House districts and 30 Senate districts.
The data is expected to be released by
the federal government on Sept. 30, so
lawmakers would still only have a few
weeks to complete the task.
Oregon’s leaders have been struggling
to figure out how to do the weighty po-
litical job of redistricting in a year when
data delays are upending hard constitu-
tional dates.
Complicating the process is disagree-
ment among Democratic elected officials
over whether it’s even necessary to wait
for the updated Census data to do the job
properly. The Legislature named Fagan as
a defendant in a lawsuit earlier this month
and asked the Supreme Court for three
extra months to complete redistricting.
But Fagan, who will inherit the job of
redrawing the maps if lawmakers fail to
pass a redistricting plan, is worried that
pushing back redistricting would require
huge changes in the timeline of the 2022
primary election. In an answer to the
Legislature’s lawsuit, the secretary said
that lawmakers didn’t need to wait until
census data arrived to redraw districts.
She argues that the Population Re-
search Center at Portland State Uni-
versity has accurate enough population
data to allow the Legislature to draw
districts that have equal enough popula-
tions to pass legal muster. Under Fagan’s
proposed plan, lawmakers would use
that data to complete maps by July 1.
If they later needed to be rejiggered,
she said, there would be time to do so.
The Supreme Court’s proposed
schedule is something of a middle
ground between the two proposals.
Under the court’s proposed schedule,
Fagan would have a week — as opposed
to six weeks under the state constitu-
tion — to draw maps if the Legislature
fails to do so. She says such a short time
frame might require her to “conduct
public hearings and create her own re-
districting map at virtually the same
time as the Legislative Assembly is con-
ducting public hearings and deliberat-
ing its own redistricting plan.”
“This is likely to create public confu-
sion,” the filing said.
The Oregon Supreme Court has not
yet formally concluded that it even has
authority to alter constitutional dead-
lines, let alone what those altered dead-
lines will be. According to a spokesman
for the court, there is no specific time
frame for justices to reach a decision.
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LOCAL & STATE BRIEFING
Deschutes County expands guidance.
In addition, some pharma-
eligibility for vaccinations
Deschutes County has
expanded eligibility for
COVID-19 vaccinations to any-
one who is identified as a front-
line worker, those over age 16
with multiple underlying health
conditions and anyone living in
multigenerational homes.
The county is one of 20 ap-
proved by the Oregon Health
Authority approved on Wednes-
day allowing them to offer vac-
cinations to expanded groups.
Crook and Jefferson counties
were also given approval, ac-
cording to a statement provided
by state health officials.
Starting March 31, anyone
fitting in this Phase 1B, Group
7 can preregister by going to
www.centraloregoncovidvac-
cine.com. Those who sign up
will be contacted when it’s time
to schedule a vaccine appoint-
ment. Appointments will be
good for next week when a
new shipment arrives, accord-
ing to the county’s statement.
This group puts the county
ahead of the state’s schedule.
Appointments are sent out in
staggered intervals throughout
the week. The preregistration
system allows appointments to
be prioritized based on Ore-
gon Health Authority eligibility
cies in Central Oregon are of-
fering the COVID-19 vaccine to
eligible groups through the Fed-
eral Retail Pharmacy Program.
There will not be enough vac-
cines to vaccinate all eligible Or-
egonians at these locations due
to the limited supply, but ap-
pointment availability changes
frequently. Appointments may
be available by visiting vac-
cinefinder.org.
Terrebonne man charged
with attempted murder
A Terrebonne resident is ac-
cused of trying to kill a man this
month with a knife.
Marion Amador Douglas,
42, appeared
Tuesday in
Deschutes
County Cir-
cuit Court by
video from
the Deschutes
County jail.
Douglas
He’s been
charged with
second-degree attempted mur-
der, first-degree assault, sec-
ond-degree assault, menacing
and unlawful use of a weapon.
Attempted murder and
first-degree assault are Measure
11 offenses, subject to manda-
Man gets 30 years in shooting
of former Rogue River fire chief
Associated Press
ROSEBURG — A man ac-
cused of crimes spanning four
states that culminated with an
attempted murder in Oregon
has been sentenced to 30 years
in prison and will be extradited
to Colorado to face a murder
charge there, authorities said.
Matthew Anthony Fanelli,
32, was sentenced Monday
for a 2019 attack in which of-
ficials say he shot a former
fire chief multiple times and
pistol-whipped the man’s girl-
friend in a bid to steal their car.
Fanelli has been held in a
county jail in rural Southern
Oregon since his arrest two
years ago. Authorities said he
is accused of crimes in other
states including the slaying of
an Uber driver in Denver, rob-
beries in Wyoming and Utah
and a gun battle on Interstate
5 in Southern Oregon after
leading police on a high-speed
chase.
During the car chase, a bul-
let lodged in a car seat occu-
pied by a 10-month-old infant,
who wasn’t harmed, the Daily
Courier reported.
Former Rogue River Fire
Chief Mike Hannan, who was
shot multiple times at close
range, spoke at the sentencing
hearing. He required several
surgeries and still has a bullet
lodged in his pelvis, the news-
paper reported.
“I don’t believe this person
is going to do anything differ-
ently than he’s been doing. He
shows utter disregard for life,”
Hannan said. “I call on you to
do whatever you can to keep
this person in custody.”
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tory minimum sentencing in
Oregon.
On March 20, Douglas al-
legedly used a knife to attack
Casey Cameron Spidle, the
listed victim for all charges in
Douglas’ indictment.
Douglas was assigned a pub-
lic defender. His plea hearing is
scheduled for April 12.
Redmond man gets 4 years
in prison for child porn
A Redmond man was sen-
tenced this week to nearly four
years in prison for having nu-
merous images of child por-
nography.
Joshua Shipman, 45, was
arrested in August 2019 after
the Deschutes County Sheriff’s
Office received a tip from the
National Center for Missing or
Exploited Children.
A grand jury originally
charged Shipman with 19
counts of encouraging child
sex abuse.
Through a search warrant,
police officers read exchanges
Shipman had online with a
Coquille woman about sexu-
ally abusing children. The con-
versations were described as
“incredibly graphic” in the sen-
tencing memo from the state,
which sought a sentence of 45
months in prison for Shipman.
“The two spoke about their
desire to sexually abuse chil-
dren and discussed times they
have abused children,” wrote
Deschutes County Deputy Dis-
trict Attorney Matt Nelson.
In February, Shipman
pleaded guilty to three counts
of first-degree encouraging
child sex abuse. He was sen-
tenced Tuesday in Deschutes
County Circuit Court to 45
months in prison to be fol-
lowed by three years post-
prison supervision.
The woman Shipman wrote
to, Patricia Anne Mueth, 34,
was arrested and charged with
seven criminal counts for al-
legedly sexually abusing a
young relative and a dog and
filming the alleged abuse. That
case in Coos County remains
active.
Former AG to investigate
OHSU harassment case
Former U.S. Attorney Gen-
eral Eric Holder is conducting
an independent investigation
into misconduct at Oregon
Health & Science University
after a recent lawsuit alleging
workplace harassment.
President Danny Jacobs and
board of directors Chairman
Wayne Monfries sent a letter
Tuesday announcing they have
retained Holder “to conduct a
comprehensive, independent
investigation of OHSU’s work-
place environment related to
sexual harassment, discrimina-
tion, retaliation and racism.”
Earlier
this month, a
woman filed
a $45 mil-
lion lawsuit
against Dr.
Jason Camp-
bell, who was
OHSU’s
working as
Dr. Jason
a resident at
Campbell
OHSU during
once posted
the alleged
popular dance
abuse.
videos to
The 39-
social media.
page com-
plaint alleges
that Campbell sent the woman
unwanted, sexually explicit
text messages, “pornographic
photographs” and “sexually
charged social media mes-
sages.”
The Oregonian has reported
Campbell has garnered mil-
lions of social media views
with viral dance videos and has
been dubbed the TikTok Doc.
Campbell and an attorney
didn’t respond to requests for
comment from the newspa-
per when it first reported the
lawsuit.
— Bulletin staff and wire reports