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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2017
LOCAL
Nakapalau leaves council meeting after questions about past felonies
by KVEW shows Nakapa-
lau refused to answer ques-
tions before driving away.
According to court doc-
uments obtained from Clark
County, Washington, by the
East Oregonian, Nakapalau
was found guilty in 2000 of
nine felony counts of pos-
sessing “a depiction of a
minor engaged in sexually
explicit conduct.” Sentenc-
ing records state he was sen-
tenced to 60 days custody in
the county jail (52 served on
work release) and was not
allowed to possess a per-
sonal computer during his
post-incarceration
super-
By JADE MCDOWELL
STAFF WRITER
The Echo City Coun-
cil adopted a code of ethics
and social media policy on
Thursday night, but Coun-
cilor Lou Nakapalau was not
there to cast his vote after
being confronted before the
meeting by a member of
the media about documents
showing he had previously
been convicted of possess-
ing child pornography.
Nakapalau showed up
early to the VFW Hall where
the meeting was being
held, but walked out after
Lou Nakapalau
a reporter from KVEW-TV
in the Tri-Cities asked him
about the documents. Video
of the encounter published
vision. Another document
states that in 2007 it was
ordered that “the defen-
dant’s civil rights lost by
operation of law upon con-
viction be hereby restored.”
Nakapalau was sworn in
to the Echo City Council in
January after earning eight
write-in votes for an empty
seat. He spoke at Stanfield
Secondary School’s assem-
bly the week of Veterans
Day as an Army veteran
from the Vietnam War.
Nakapalau
did
not
return a phone message
left Thursday night and has
not responded to previous
ing, malicious, obscene,
threatening violence, intim-
idating, comments meant
to intentionally harm some-
one’s reputation, retalia-
tion to what you preserve
(sic) to be another’s nega-
tive post, and similar inap-
propriate or unlawful con-
duct as a representative of
the City of Echo will not be
tolerated and may be subject
to disciplinary action up to
or including dismissal if you
are a city Employee,” the
policy reads.
It also asks people to be
mature, fair and accurate in
their posts.
attempts by the East Orego-
nian to reach him.
An ethics policy and a
social media policy requested
by councilor Robert Har-
ris after the Facebook inci-
dent were both unanimously
adopted by the Echo City
Council on Thursday night.
The social media policy tells
councilors and staff that they
are “solely responsible for
what you post online.”
“Posting inappropriate
remarks about co-workers,
council members or mem-
bers of the public, which
may be viewed as discrim-
inatory, harassing, bully-
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