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A2 THE BULLETIN • THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2022 The Bulletin LOCAL, STATE & REGION How to reach us CIRCULATION Didn’t receive your paper? Start or stop subscription? 541-385-5800 PHONE HOURS 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday 7 a.m.-11 a.m. Saturday-Sunday and holidays GENERAL INFORMATION 541-382-1811 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri. ONLINE www.bendbulletin.com EMAIL bulletin@bendbulletin.com AFTER HOURS Newsroom ................................541-383-0348 Circulation ................................541-385-5800 NEWSROOM EMAIL Business ........business@bendbulletin.com City Desk .............news@bendbulletin.com Features.................................................................. communitylife@bendbulletin.com Sports ................. sports@bendbulletin.com NEWSROOM FAX 541-385-5804 OUR ADDRESS Street .............. 320 SW Upper Terrace Drive Suite 200 Bend, OR 97702 Mailing ........... P.O. Box 6020 Bend, OR 97708 BY PETER WONG Oregon Capital Bureau Gov. Kate Brown shared the stage with others as they celebrated the plan she hopes will transform Oregon’s future economy and workforce. A ceremonial signing of Senate Bill 1545, which enacts the $200 million plan known as Future Ready Oregon, took place Tuesday on Intel’s Ron- ler Acres campus in Hillsboro. Brown signed the actual legis- lation on March 17. Brown spoke for only a few minutes. She described the plan as “a game-changing in- vestment for working Orego- nians,” but left it to others to talk about its creation and ex- ecution. The plan blends $123 mil- lion in federal funds, mostly from President Joe Biden’s pandemic recovery legisla- tion, with $76 million from the state budget. Some money will go to the existing network of regional workforce devel- opment boards, and some money will go to competitive Governor’s office Gov. Kate Brown displays the bill that enacts a $200 million workforce development plan during a ceremo- nial bill signing Tuesday at Intel’s Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro. grants to organizations for in- novative ways to reach, train and support would-be work- ers left behind in previous economic recoveries. “It will give Oregonians the education, the training and the resources they need to get into good-paying careers at places like — let me think — Intel and other key industries across the state,” said Pia Wil- son-Body, president of the In- tel Foundation. “I would be remiss if I did not point out that these in- vestments prioritize our un- derserved communities … to ensure a diverse, skilled and equitable workforce.” Among the groups are women, people of color, vet- erans, low-income and rural residents. Oregon has regained 82% of the jobs lost two years ago, when the onset of the coro- navirus pandemic resulted in a record one-month jump in the statewide unemployment rate from 3.5% to 13.3%. The rate in February, the most re- cent available, was 4%. State economists say Oregon is on track to a full recovery later this year. “But I know that the cost of living is on the rise, and we need to do the work so that every Oregonian benefits from it,” Brown said. “I know Future Ready Oregon will do just that.” █ pwong@pamplinmedia.com Brown shares credit for job training plan B OREGON ADMINISTRATION Publisher Heidi Wright ..............................541-383-0341 Editor Gerry O’Brien .............................541-633-2166 DEPARTMENT HEADS Advertising Brian Naplachowski .................541-383-0370 Circulation/Operations Maria Johnson ..........................541-617-7830 Finance Wendy Dougherty ...541-383-0324 Human Resources ................541-383-0340 TALK TO AN EDITOR City Julie Johnson ...................541-383-0367 Business, Features, GO! 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The Bulletin retains ownership and copyright protection of all staff-prepared news copy, advertising copy and news or ad illustrations. They may not be reproduced without explicit prior approval. Rescuers search for snowboarder missing at Mt. Hood Meadows KALE WILLIAMS The Oregonian Search and rescue teams are combing ar- eas of the Mt. Hood Meadows ski resort Wednesday looking for a 30-year-old snow- boarder who failed to return after a day on the mountain. Ryan Mather of Aloha went riding at the resort Tuesday and was last reported at the Shooting Star Express chairlift, which is some- times used to access backcountry areas of the resort. Mather’s girlfriend reported him miss- ing about 9:30 p.m., and his vehicle was dis- covered in the parking lot, according to the Hood River County Sheriff’s Office. Teams searched for Mather overnight but were unsuccessful, the sheriff’s office said. The ski resort has been hit by heavy snow during the past several days, with at least 20 inches falling in the past 48 hours, which likely resulted in deep powder conditions off of groomed trails. The resort only reported The Oregonian file Passengers ride a chairlift in 2020 at Mt. Hood Meadows. about an inch of new snow since Tuesday morning. Personnel from more than a half dozen organizations — including the Hood River Crag Rats, Portland Mountain Rescue, Cor- vallis Mountain Rescue, Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office and the Oregon Air National Guard — are helping with the search. Portland police collected personal info on protesters in 2020, audit finds BY MAXINE BERNSTEIN The Oregonian Portland police collected personal information and social media posts about demonstrators during the city’s mass racial justice pro- tests in 2020 without docu- menting a potential crime, according to a city audit re- leased Wednesday. One officer recorded li- cense plates of cars near a protest. Another kept a video of people presumed to be protest organizers. The Po- lice Bureau’s Criminal Intel- ligence Unit held onto a bul- letin from Vancouver police describing a vehicle blaring anti-law enforcement music. Glaringly missing from Police Bureau directives, au- ditors said, is any policy or instruction to officers gov- erning what material they can gather regarding public protests. That led officers to use their own discretion on how and what type of informa- tion to obtain and keep, the audit found. Evaluators with the Port- land Audit Services Office re- viewed a random sample of 40 police reports related to pro- tests and 33 reports from the bureau’s Criminal Intelligence Unit. The unit of four offi- cers and sergeant investigates threats of targeted violence, violent extremism, threats to public officials and does threat assessments for major events and dignitary visits. Among other key findings: The Police Bureau provided no guidance for officers at protests about what informa- tion they could collect; the Criminal Intelligence Unit didn’t limit access to some of its reports, sharing them in the online police record management system that outside agencies can access; the intelligence unit also kept records past its 30-day reten- tion deadline when the case involved no crime. And despite community concerns, the auditors said they did not find that a po- lice plane monitoring the protests could identify indi- viduals or that the plane had stingray technology to pick up cellphone data. Police Chief Chuck Lovell pushed back on some of the findings involving the Crim- inal Intelligence Unit, saying five of the six reports entered into the general records sys- tem didn’t amount to crim- inal intelligence per se. And the sixth report was a bul- letin from an outside police agency, he said. Lovell also noted that officers can view publicly available social media infor- mation and doing so doesn’t constitute a formal legal “search” under the Fourth Amendment. Mayor Ted Wheeler, who serves as police commis- sioner, said the Police Bureau will adopt most of the audit’s recommendations. “I support these protec- tions because of the very real history of shameful and bi- ased surveillance practices by some law enforcement agencies in our state and na- tion,” Wheeler said in a writ- ten response. He and Lovell said the Po- lice Bureau also will adopt a procedure to govern the use and reporting of electronic surveillance technology and put the police commissioner in charge of approving state or federal funding to buy the technology more specifically. LOCAL BRIEFING COVID-19 community levels for Central Oregon The Bulletin is no longer publishing COVID-19 daily case counts by county. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention monitors community levels of COVID-19 to help communities decide what prevention steps to take based on the latest data. Levels can be low, medium or high and are determined by looking at hospi- tal beds being used, hospital admissions and the total number of new COVID-19 cases in an area. The CDC lists the following levels for Central Oregon: Deschutes County: Low Crook County: Low Jefferson County: Low Precautions the CDC recommends for communities with low levels: Stay up to date on vaccines and get tested if you have symptoms. High Desert Museum to offer free family workshops The High Desert Museum near Bend is accepting applications for a free, family-centered outdoor learning workshop series. The series is available only for children 8 through 11 and their adult caregivers. The program, titled Burrowing into Wildlife Science: A Fam- ily Adventure Workshop Series will be held May 7, May 14, May 21, May 28, June 4 and June 11. Each day, participants will learn about different aspects of predators and prey that inhabit local desert and forest environments. The program is free and participants will also be awarded $150 for participating in the series. Gas cards will be provided to help with transportation, and lunch will be provided at each workshop. To apply for the program, families can submit an application at highdesertmuseum.org. Click on the education tab, and in the drop down menu, click Family Workshop. Applications are available in both English and Spanish. Redmond group calls on residents to support school A group in Redmond is asking local residents to help support the Redmond School District by “adopting” a local school for a week and making donations. The group, Redmond Collective Action, said in a press release that it is calling on community members to make donations to M.A. Lynch Elementary School from April 11-15. Among the group’s ideas for donations are arts and crafts, books, school supplies, gift cards and other encouraging cards. The group also recommended that community members donate to music, art and English language learner programs.
