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Police reform bills advance
BY JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
The Oregonian
Oregon legislators passed 10 police ac-
countability bills through the House Judi-
ciary Committee on Tuesday, marking a
major bipartisan step toward law enforce-
ment reform.
The bills include directives for investi-
gating officers’ backgrounds more thor-
oughly before hiring them, regulating the
types of munitions and weapons police
can use, creating a public database with
information about officers’ misconduct
and discipline, and requiring officers to
have specific identification on their uni-
forms when working in a crowd.
The House Judiciary Committee is
chaired by Janelle Bynum, a Clackamas
Democrat. Ron Noble, a McMinnville
Republican, and Karin Power, a Mil-
waukie Democrat, are the vice chairs.
The bipartisan efforts were hailed by
Republican lawmakers, Gov. Kate Brown
and others.
In a statement released shortly after the
bills passed through the committee, the
House Republican Caucus released a state-
ment applauding the work of the commit-
tee. “I was honored to have been a part of
this process, this was a team effort,” Noble
said. “I’m also thankful to Chair Bynum
for her leadership to achieve true progress
with bipartisan partnership.”
Brown attended Tuesday’s session, tes-
tifying in support of the bills prior to the
BY FEDOR ZARKHIN
The Oregonian
Dave Killen/The Oregonian file
Last year, Portland was an epicenter of Black Lives Matter protests, and police decisions were
controversial. Legislation that advanced in the Oregon House this week would regulate the type
of munitions officers can use and require them to wear clear identification, among other things.
vote. “I’m here tonight simply to encour-
age you to vote yes,” she sad.
In a statement released later Tuesday
evening, Brown cited the Public Safety
Training and Standards task force, which
she created last summer to review law en-
forcement training and practices. She said
the recommendations of that group were
reflected in one of the bills.
Multnomah County District Attorney
Mike Schmidt also praised the efforts,
calling them “historic.
“I applaud the Oregon Legislature for
honoring and responding to the commu-
nity’s demand for deep and transforma-
tive change in the relationship between
law enforcement and the community they
serve,” he said in a statement.
Police accountability was at the top of
the agenda for the Legislature’s Black, In-
digenous and People of Color Caucus at
the beginning of the session.
The caucus introduced, drafted or
planned to develop more than 40 pieces of
legislation, including Bynum’s proposal to
restrict law enforcement’s use of munitions
and require thorough background checks
and racial bias tests for all police hires.
Both of Bynum’s bills passed through
the committee Tuesday.
Lawmakers look at improving long-term facilities
Associated Press
Oregon lawmakers have been consid-
ering a bill which would establish staffing
ratios in long-term care facilities based on
patient needs.
Sen. Sara Gelser, D-Corvallis who is
Senate Bill 714‘s co-sponsor, said there’s
not a one-size fits all approach, KLCC re-
ported.
Legislators may limit
state’s ability to conceal
public health data
“Ultimately, this is about the residents
that live in these facilities and their right
to have dignified lives, to be safe, to be
comfortable,” Gelser said. “For them to
do that, they need to be supported by staff
and staff are exhausted.”
Gelser said with the pandemic limiting
family members’ access to care homes,
staffing issues have become more appar-
ent as often family would normally help
out with care. She added staff need more
training, support and pay.
Senate Bills 714 and 703 would require
the Department of Human Services and
the Oregon Health Authority to adopt
quality metrics for caregiver registries,
home health agencies, in-home care agen-
cies and certain residential care facilities.
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Oregon legislators could force
the state’s leading health agency
to be more transparent by neu-
tering a law that allows officials
to conceal health information,
including about the COVID-19
pandemic, that the public other-
wise has a right to know.
Sen. Michael Dembrow,
D-Portland, said Oregon has
far too often erred on the side
of secrecy in its application
of the law, something health
agencies would not be able to
do if a bill he proposed this ses-
sion gains approval.
“We’re talking about legiti-
mate need to know for the pub-
lic,” Dembrow said at a legisla-
tive hearing for the bill March
24. Under Senate Bill 719,
“when questions are asked, un-
less there’s a reason not to, then
information will be released.”
Under the current version of
his bill, the Oregon Health Au-
thority and county health agen-
cies would have to provide sum-
marized health data in response
to public records requests un-
less there is a legitimate risk that
an individual’s identity could be
compromised. The legislation is
still in its early stages, and future
amendments could add caveats.
The Oregon Health Author-
ity is the state’s ultimate repos-
itory of health information,
collecting data from coronavi-
rus testing labs, contact tracers,
providers who give COVID-19
shots and countless other en-
tities.
Among other things, aggre-
gate agency data can reveal the
scope of the disease’s impact
on Oregonians and help the
public evaluate health officials’
decisions.
In Oregon, the work of
public agencies is considered
the public’s business — and a
sweeping public records law
requires most documents and
data to be provided upon re-
quest. But the records law
doesn’t apply to public health
investigations, such as those
conducted when investigating
COVID-19 cases.
As a result, the state has reg-
ularly used its blanket power
to deny public records requests
for pandemic data, whether
or not that information would
benefit the public.
Among other requests, the
state has denied information
about testing rates by ZIP
code, statistics linked to early
contact-tracing efforts and
county-level race and ethnicity
data about people infected by
COVID-19.
In each case, the agency cited
a state law that says that infor-
mation agencies gather in in-
vestigating outbreaks “is con-
fidential and is exempt from
disclosure,” allowing health
agencies to choose what they
disclose to the public, if any-
thing.
In an indication of the state’s
flexibility in the application of
the law, the health authority
has on numerous occasions re-
versed course on a public-re-
cords denial after pressure from
the public and the media.
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A copy of this EA is
also available by re-
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the project leader
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Project is located
on the Bend – Fort
Rock Ranger District
of the Deschutes
National Forest. The
paved path would
parallel U.S. High-
way 97 from Knott
Road to Lava Lands
Visitor Center south
of Bend, OR.
This project would
construct a paved
path about 6.1 miles
long south of Bend,
Oregon in collabo-
ration with ODOT
using funds from
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Access
Program
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ministered by the
Federal
Highways
Administration. The
section of the path
that would be on
Forest Service lands
and that is analyzed
in this EA is about
4.1 miles long and
would be 10 feet
wide with a 2-foot
shoulder.
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days following the
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of this legal notice.
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after the close of
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period will be con-
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have standing for ob-
jection. Those wish-
ing to be eligible to
object must meet the
information require-
ments of 36 CFR
218.
Documents
associated with this
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including
public
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ments
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format (rtf), or porta-
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jected.
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ing by mail and sent
to Kevin Larkin, Dis-
trict Ranger, Bend-
Fort Rock Ranger
District,
63095
Deschutes Market
Road, Bend, OR
97701. Hand-deliv-
ered comments are
discouraged at this
time.
Anyone wishing to ob-
tain additional infor-
mation on the proj-
ect should contact
Cristina
Peterson
by email, cristina.
peterson@usda.gov
or by phone at 541-
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