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NATIONAL BRIEFING
Jan. 6 panel seeks interview,
records from congressman
service members participated in the
riot at the U.S. Capitol, triggering a
broad department review.
According to the Pentagon, fewer
than 100 military members are
known to have been involved in sub-
stantiated cases of extremist activity in
the past year. But they warn that the
number may grow given recent spikes
in domestic violent extremism, partic-
ularly among veterans.
Officials said the new policy doesn’t
largely change what is prohibited
but is more of an effort to make sure
troops are clear on what they can and
can’t do, while still protecting their
First Amendment right to free speech.
And for the first time, it is far more
specific about social media.
The new policy lays out in detail
the banned activities, which range
from advocating terrorism or sup-
porting the overthrow of the govern-
ment to fundraising or rallying on
behalf of an extremist group or “lik-
ing” or reposting extremist views on
social media. The rules also specify
that commanders must determine
two things in order for someone to be
held accountable: that the action was
an extremist activity, as defined in the
rules, and that the service member
“actively participated” in that prohib-
ited activity.
Previous policies banned extremist
activities but didn’t go into such great
detail, and also did not specify the
two-step process to determine some-
one accountable.
St. Charles
Recovery
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St. Charles is the largest employer
and the sole hospital system in Cen-
tral Oregon. In an unusual move,
it asked both the judge and a fed-
eral agency to intervene against the
union’s planned strike.
Those appeals failed, and the
union fired back in court, arguing St.
Charles’ legal counsel intentionally
didn’t tell the judge about key legal
precedents, which strongly limit the
court’s power to influence labor con-
flicts.
McShane ordered attorney Mark
Hutcheson and law firm Davis
Wright Tremaine to pay more than
$40,000 in legal costs for the union.
Oregon Federation of Nurses and
Health Professionals organizers have
long accused the health system of
bullying and union-busting tactics.
“This victory proves that our ex-
periences with St. Charles’ leader-
ship were legitimate and that bad
behavior by employers will no lon-
ger be tolerated,” union President
Jodi Barschow said in a press re-
lease.
St. Charles spokesperson Lisa
Goodman said in an email the judge’s
order is “directed solely against out-
side counsel, not St. Charles Health
System.”
Hutcheson did not respond to
emailed requests for comment. He
is a “veteran labor and employment
law attorney who helps employers in
His wife and daughters work every
day, keeping tabs on the financials
and operations. Ramsay himself is on
go-kart duty on busy days.
“Our whole family is chipping in,
for sure,” he said. “It’s all hands on
deck.”
While it would be nice to have a
few more employees in the building,
Ramsay is handling the crowds as he
did when he started the business in
the 1990s.
“We are doing a lot of the things we
used to do when we were getting the
business up and running and we have
circled back to those times again,” said
Ramsay. “Certainly there is a lesson to
be learned to not get too comfortable,
and when things change, don’t panic.”
The House panel investigating the
Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection re-
quested an interview and documents
from Republican Rep. Scott Perry of
Pennsylvania on Monday, marking
the first time the committee pub-
licly sought to sit down with a sitting
member of Congress.
The latest request launches a new
phase for the lawmakers on the
committee, who have so far resisted
reaching out to one of their own as
they investigate the insurrection by
President Donald Trump’s supporters
and his efforts to overturn the elec-
tion. Perry and other congressional
Republicans met with Trump ahead
of the attack and strategized about
how they could block the results at
the Jan. 6 electoral count.
In a letter to
Perry, Missis-
sippi Rep. Bennie
Thompson, the
Democratic chair-
man of the panel,
said the panel had
received evidence
Perry
from multiple wit-
nesses, including
then-acting Attorney General Jeffrey
Rosen and then-acting Deputy At-
torney General Richard Donoghue,
that Perry had “an important role” in
efforts to install Justice Department
official Jeffrey Clark as acting attor-
ney general.
The letter requests an interview
with Perry, who pushed the Justice
Department to overturn the election
and met with Trump ahead of the
violent attack, according to investi-
gators.
A request for comment left with
Perry’s office was not immediately re-
turned.
Pentagon issues rules to stop
extremism within the ranks
Warning that extremism in the
ranks is increasing, Pentagon officials
issued detailed new rules Monday
prohibiting service members from
actively engaging in extremist activi-
ties. The new guidelines come nearly
a year after some current and former
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Medical technicians walked off the job at St. Charles Bend on the morning of March 4.
a wide variety of industries manage
their labor costs,” according to his
firm’s website.
In court records, Hutcheson
wrote that he accepts “full respon-
sibility for the fact that we did not
initially address the jurisdictional
questions,” arguing that under a
tight deadline, “we focused on per-
ceived harm instead of jurisdictional
issues.”
The March walkout of medi-
cal technicians was the first worker
strike at the Bend hospital in more
than 40 years. In past cases that did
“This victory proves that our
experiences with St. Charles’
leadership were legitimate and
that bad behavior by employers
will no longer be tolerated.”
— Jodi Barschow, union president
not result in a strike, workers have al-
leged violations of labor laws to state
agencies and to the courts, in some
cases winning large settlements.
If a person successfully completes
diversion, no DUII conviction will be
entered on her or his criminal record.
Copeland’s diversion requirements
include attending a victim impact
panel, paying a $450 fine, participat-
ing in a substance abuse evaluation
and serving 12 months of supervised
probation. An ignition-interlock de-
vice was installed on her car in Octo-
ber, according to court records.
Copeland was hired in 2000 by
Redmond Police after completing
training at the state police academy.
She was the department’s officer of
the year in 2016.
In February, she filed a lawsuit
against the city of Redmond alleging
one of her supervisors, Lt. Eric Beck-
with, had engaged in a sexist, bullying
and unprofessional behavior toward
her since 2016. She’s seeking $250,000
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in damages .
Copeland’s attorney, Dan Thenell,
has brought several other law-
suits against Redmond Police. Two
months ago, a judge agreed to con-
solidate Copeland’s lawsuit with
that of former Redmond Sgt. Ryan
Fraker, another Thenell client, for
discovery purposes.
Copeland is also the subject of a
pending federal civil rights lawsuit.
In January 2020, the department was
sued by the father of a 14-year-old
boy arrested by Copeland and a fellow
officer, who used a stun gun repeat-
edly during the encounter.
The city has responded to the law-
suit by asserting the officers acted rea-
sonably and are therefore entitled to
qualified immunity.
Last week, attorneys in the federal
lawsuit jointly requested additional
time for discovery.
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