WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2016
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Candidates make case to wear sheriff’s badge
services and mental health
providers met last week at
Incumbent Sheriff Ter- a conference in Pendleton
ry Rowan said in his irst to help identify and close
term, he has made the gaps in service. Lehnert
sheriff’s ofice more pro- said that was helpful, but
fessional and respon-
large gaps remain.
sive.
Lehnert said all
Challenger Ryan
the suicidal people
Lehnert promised to
he has encountered
use the ofice, should
as a cop have been
he defeat Rowan in
under the inluence
the November elec-
of drugs or alcohol.
tion, to improve
Yet the detoxiica-
mental health treat- Lehnert
tion center in Pend-
ment. He also said he
leton will not accept
would begin working
people who are sui-
toward agency ac-
cidal, and the men-
creditation in his irst
tal health provider
100 days in ofice.
Lifeways Inc. will
The two candi-
not take anyone in-
dates met last week
toxicated.
with the East Orego-
No third option
nian editorial board Rowan
exists, he said, but he
to lay out their argu-
would push for one
ments for the job.
as sheriff.
Lehnert expressed his
Rowan agreed that men-
passion for helping people tal health is the most sig-
with mental heath prob- niicant problem for law
lems. Most citizens who enforcement. So he helped
police deal with routinely institute new programs in
suffer from some kind of the county jail to help in-
mental heath crisis or ad- mates with their mental
diction, he said, and ind- heath, including the avail-
ing ways to help them is ability of a counselor who
the major challenge faced can evaluate inmates. But
by law enforcement.
Rowan said he, too, gets
Local police, emergency frustrated with the lack of
By PHIL WRIGHT
Staff Writer
MEDICAL
DIRECTORY
facilities and options.
“We know they are in
crisis,” he said. “But we
don’t have anywhere to put
them.”
To that end, Rowan said
he is interested in inding
better ways to help people
in crisis, and state Rep.
Greg Smith, R-Heppner,
could look at the issue in
the 2017 Legislature. Row-
an said he would join such
an effort.
Campaign inancial re-
ports show Smith’s re-elec-
tion committee gave $500
to Rowan’s effort. And
Umatilla County Commis-
sioner Bill Elfering con-
tributed $250. Rowan’s
campaign has raised $9,513
and has $4,920 cash on
hand. Lehnert’s campaign
has raised $10,045 and has
$4,428 available.
Rowan also touted en-
dorsements from state Rep.
Greg Barreto, R-Cove, and
state Sen. Bill Hansell,
R-Athena, all three Umatil-
la County commissioners,
as well as a trio of retired
commissioners.
Rowan also said he built
his irst campaign platform
to address complaints he
heard as the former under-
sheriff about the lack of
patrol deputies and long
response times. So he pur-
sued policing contracts
with Athena and Weston, he
said, and looked for savings
in the budget that resulted
in adding seven deputies to
make a total of 14.
But Lehnert claims the
complaints about lack of
response from the sheriff’s
ofice have not gone away.
He said the irst contributer
to his campaign was upset
that Rowan would not re-
turn phone calls, a com-
plaint he has heard others
express, including some in
law enforcement.
Rowan said he under-
took a careful, layered
approach to improving
the sheriff’s ofice, from
getting all employees into
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the same uniform to a ma-
jor upgrade at the dispatch
center. And the work is not
inished, but he said ac-
complishments in his irst
term are numerous and the
relationships with partner
agencies are solid.
Lehnert said the sheriff’s
ofice needs to become ac-
credited to show it is a pro-
fessional agency.
That’s a “big moun-
tain,” he said, given all the
sheriff’s ofice does, but
it needs to happen. Right
now, Lehnert said, other
local police agencies do
not respect the agency and
he called Rowan an “ab-
sentee sheriff.”
Rowan said his accom-
plishments speak for them-
selves, and that he has re-
structured, redesigned and
re-energized the ofice.
Contact Phil Wright at
541-966-0833.
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