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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.”
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Brown shares credit for job training plan
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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.