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Our Meeting this week, is today, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at the Wild River Brew Pub located at 533 NE F Street, in Grants Pass, from 5:15 PM-6:15 PM.
As discussed last week, we will work really hard to stay within the parameters of a 1-hour meeting. As such, our topics will be limited. I ask that the Team Captains work hard outside the main SOS Meeting, so that the presentations are summaries of our works in progress!
THANK YOU for all of your sacrifice!
Agenda Thus Far:
Victims’ Voices of Josephine County
By K. David Smith
This column is the second in a series that aims to give the human perspective behind the crisis in criminal justice funding in Josephine County, Oregon. In May, 2012, the voters of Josephine County rejected a ballot measure that would have increased property taxes to partially replace lost federal subsidies that had long funded the operations of the County’s Sheriff’s Office, District Attorney, Jail, and Juvenile Justice Center. As a result, more than 90 criminal justice personnel were let go, jail capacity was greatly reduced, and many crimes went unpunished. Continue reading
Here are our notes from Tuesday’s Meeting:
Agenda:
Victims’ Voices of Josephine County
By K. David Smith
This column introduces a weekly series whose aim is to give the human perspective behind the crisis in criminal justice funding in Josephine County, Oregon. In May, 2012, the voters of Josephine County rejected a ballot measure that would have increased property taxes to partially replace lost federal subsidies that had long funded the operations of the County’s Sheriff’s Office, District Attorney, Jail, and Juvenile Justice Center. As a result, more than 90 criminal justice personnel were let go, jail capacity was greatly reduced, and many crimes went unpunished. Continue reading
Here is a summary of the 6-4-13 meeting:
1. Knitting the Community Together We talked about how important for SOS as a group to continue to involve everyone who is willing to help us achieve our Mission: “A citizen-voiced plan to provide for a secure, stable and sustainable Josephine County.”; We spoke about how involvement and ownership of/by our Community presents itself in many forms. Continue reading
The SOS Meeting this week is today: Tuesday, June 4, 2013, is at the Wild River Brew Pub located at 533 NE F Street, in Grants Pass from 5:15 PM-6:15 PM. We will cover all items as best we can.
3. Testimony in Salem Monday, June 3, 2013 (Pat Fahey/Cherryl Walker)
May 31, 2013
Oregon State Representatives and Senators
CC: Governor John Kitzhaber
Re: HB 3453, Public Safety Fiscal Emergency in Josephine County
Dear State Representatives and State Senators,
By now, you are all aware of the fiscal crisis that exists in Josephine County, Curry County, and to a lesser extent other counties in Oregon. In short, this crisis has been brought about by the gradual dissolution of the O&C agreement and its successor, the Secure Rural Schools Act, followed by the repeated failure of local attempts to increase property taxes to compensate. We need not review the history here. It’s the results that are important: the drastic reduction in funding for vital public services, particularly public safety and criminal justice, in these O&C counties. The impact has been a dramatic increase in crime, along with an equally dramatic reduction in the ability of the County public safety services to respond in a timely or effective way. Even in cities like Grants Pass, which have continued to fund their separate public safety services through city-level property tax levies, the results have been felt, since jail capacity and district attorney staffing have been cut significantly, leaving offenders back on the streets within days or hours. Continue reading
What do you think of the following article in the Oregonian?
http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2013/05/curry_josephine_counties_could.html
“Our role as the state is to act as the safety net,” said House Majority Leader Val Hoyle, D-Eugene. “I don’t feel good that we have parts of Oregon that are becoming like parts of Appalachia. I don’t think it’s right that a woman who needs immediate help because she is being attacked has to wait three hours until a police officer can get there.”
Here are four major stories of crime in our community, all from the same person.
Story #1 was posted here: http://securingoursafety.org/?p=1358
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Story #2: I am a licensed race car driver and a license private airplane pilot as well. I own two formula race cars, a Formula “FORD” and, a Formula “V” (formula type is an open wheel car just like an Indy 500 car) their appraised value is between $25,000 and $30,000.
It is unfortunate that my race cars were stored on a private property located in Josephine County and then stolen from there. Continue reading
