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COVID-19 data for Thursday, June 10:
Deschutes County cases: 9,889 (85 new cases*)
Deschutes County deaths: 80 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,254 (11 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 23 (1 new death)
Jefferson County cases: 2,348 (1 new case)
Jefferson County deaths: 38 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 204,291 (370 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,726 (10 new deaths)
* Deschutes County shows higher case totals
and test positivity than anticipated, due to a
delay in laboratory reporting from April 17 and
Wednesday.
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(Oct. 31)
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(Sept. 19)
20
10
(March 11)
March 2020
70
(Feb. 17)
(May 20)
1st case
80
(May 25)
47 new cases
(July 16)
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130
(April 29)
108 new cases
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Court reverses conviction
of woman in scooter chase
BY NOELLE CROMBIE
The Oregonian
Faced with the case of a dis-
abled woman chased by police
while on her mobility scooter,
the Oregon Court of Appeals
did what it said the Curry
County Circuit Court should
have done: Drop it.
On Wednesday, the appeals
court weighed in on the 2018
felony arrest, prosecution and
conviction of Jennifer Gayman,
a 50-year-old woman who was
living in Brookings when she
encountered police while rid-
ing the scooter.
Gayman suffers from a de-
generative eye disease and pul-
monary disease and relies on
her scooter to get around.
She was headed home after a
night with friends doing kara-
oke when two officers stopped
her on the sidewalk.
They told her she couldn’t
operate her scooter on the side-
walk, in a crosswalk or with-
out a helmet, according to the
ruling.
The officers cited her for op-
erating the scooter in a cross-
walk, unsafe operation of the
scooter and failure to wear pro-
tective headgear.
But the encounter didn’t end
there.
They also told her she
couldn’t ride the scooter to her
home, a mile or so away.
But she left anyway, lead-
ing police on what the Court
of Appeals described as a “low
speed pursuit” complete with
lights and sirens.
Once home, Gayman was ar-
rested for fleeing or attempting
to elude an officer.
LOCAL BRIEFING
19-year-old killed in crash south of Prineville
She was later convicted by
a Curry County jury and sen-
tenced to five days in jail.
Gayman last year filed a fed-
eral lawsuit against the Brook-
ings police, alleging the officers
unlawfully stopped her and
violated the federal Americans
with Disabilities Act when they
cited her, then chased her as she
rode home.
The appeals court concluded
that Gayman’s mobility device
did not legally constitute a mo-
tor vehicle, an essential element
of the crime of eluding police.
The court reversed her con-
viction.
Kristina Edmundson, a
spokeswoman for the Depart-
ment of Justice, said Wednes-
day the agency is reviewing
the ruling and has not decided
whether to appeal.
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REDMOND BUREAU
Feds could restrict West Coast
salmon fishing to help orcas
Associated Press
SEATTLE — Federal of-
ficials are proposing to cur-
tail nontribal salmon fishing
along the West Coast in es-
pecially bad years to help the
Northwest’s endangered killer
whales.
NOAA Fisheries is taking
public comment on the plan,
which calls for restricting
commercial and recreational
salmon fishing when chinook
salmon forecasts are especially
low.
The southern resident killer
whales — the endangered or-
cas that spend much of their
time in the waters between
Washington state and British
Columbia — depend heav-
ily on depleted runs of fatty
chinook. Recent research has
affirmed how important chi-
nook are to the whales year-
round, as they cruise the outer
coast, and not just when they
forage in Washington’s inland
waters in the summertime.
The fishing restrictions
would extend from Puget
Sound in Washington to
Monterey Bay in central Cal-
ifornia, and they would be
triggered when fewer than
966,000 Chinook are forecast
to return to Northwest rivers.
The last time forecast Chi-
nook returns were that low
was in 2007.
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After 15-month pause,
inmates allowed visitors
BY JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
The Oregonian
Families of inmates at two
Oregon prisons are now able
to schedule limited visits with
their loved ones, and a third
prison will soon follow suit.
Jennifer Black, an Oregon
Department of Corrections
spokesperson, said the Or-
egon State Penitentiary and
Columbia River Correctional
Institution recently started al-
lowing scheduled visits. The
department will begin allow-
ing scheduled visits at Salem’s
Oregon State Correctional In-
stitution on Monday.
The penitentiary, also lo-
cated in Salem, began a trial
visitation program April 11 in
an effort to “ease into reopen-
ing,” Black said. The program
was paused April 30 as Mar-
ion County’s COVID-19 risk
level increased but resumed
May 10 when the county’s risk
level dropped.
The state opened visitations
at northeast Portland’s Co-
lumbia River Correctional In-
stitution on June 6.
Each prison has its own set
of visitation guidelines. The
number of people who can
visit an inmate varies depend-
ing on the facility, and visiting
times range from 40 minutes
to 2½ hours. All visitors will
be screened for COVID-19
symptoms and allowed only
one visit a week.
Visitation had been
closed at Oregon’s prisons
since March 2020, when
COVID-19 began spreading
throughout the state. Several
Oregon prisons have since
had major coronavirus out-
breaks, with an estimated
3,600 inmates becoming in-
fected and 42 dying from the
virus.
The state is currently de-
termining which prisons can
host visitors, based on county
positivity rates, the “tier level”
of each institution and the
Oregon Health Authority’s
workplace outbreak report.
Black said any prison that
has a “workplace outbreak” is
not allowed to host visitors.
Six of Oregon’s 14 prisons
are in “tier 1” as of Wednes-
day, meaning they are either
open for visits or poised to
open soon.
The restrictions would in-
clude reducing fishing quotas
north of Cape Falcon in Ore-
gon; delaying the start of the
ocean commercial troll fish-
ery between Cape Falcon and
Monterey Bay; and closing
parts of the Columbia River
and Grays Harbor in Wash-
ington and the Klamath River
and Monterey Bay to fishing
much of the year.
If NOAA Fisheries adopts
the plan as recommended by
the Pacific Fishery Manage-
ment Council, it would be
one of the first times a federal
agency has restricted hunting
or fishing one species to bene-
fit a predator that relies on it.
A 19-year-old man died Wednesday night after crashing
his Kia Spectra on state Highway 27 south of Prineville, ac-
cording to Oregon State Police.
Clayton Gray, of Halfway, a small Baker County town,
was traveling north near milepost 5 on Highway 27 when he
crossed the southbound lane, left the road and rolled his car,
according to state police.
Gray was pronounced dead at the scene.
Gray’s younger sibling, who was not identified, was a pas-
senger in the car and transported by AirLink Critical Care
Transport to a nearby hospital with serious injuries.
The sibling is a student at Crook County High School, ac-
cording to the Crook County School District.
“Our hearts are broken for the family and we are ready to
provide whatever support is needed,” Michelle Jonas, Crook
County High School principal, said in a statement Thursday.
“We’re a small, close-knit community so tragedies like this
affect all of us deeply. We’re praying the student makes a full
recovery.”
Rotary club to host COVD-19 shot for shot event
The Rotary of Greater Bend is hosting a “Shots for Shots”
to encourage people to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The Rotary club is inviting people to Hola restaurant in
downtown Bend at 920 NW Bond Street from 5 to 7 p.m.
June 17. At the restaurant, people can show their vaccination
card and get a shot of alcohol for $3, courtesy of Hola. People
are encouraged to video themselves taking the shot and shar-
ing it on Facebook.
The Rotary club sees the event as a fun way to help
get Oregon to the 70% vaccination rate, which will allow
COVID-19 restrictions to be lifted across the state.
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