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Oregon City Police Department honors Reserve Officer Robert
Libke who died in the line of duty in 2013
Libke's last community event was handing out candy from his
patrol vehicle on Main Street in 2013. Pictured below left is Ziva Libke,
who was not born when her father was shot, enjoying the community event
along with other children.
  
Oregon launches review of criminal justice, behavioral health
systems
KPTV
The state or Oregon is taking a new look at different ways to
address challenges when it comes to people in the criminal justice system
who have mental illnesses and substance addictions.
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Amity will contract with sheriff's office
News Register
The Amity City Council voted Thursday night to contract with
the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office for law enforcement services rather
than retain its own police department.
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Portland City Council to consider new protest restrictions
Thursday
The Oregonian
The
Portland City Council is scheduled to have a public hearing on an ordinance
at Mayor Ted Wheeler's request Thursday that would place new restrictions
on protests in the city.
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Astoria police delay plans to move homeless out of woods
Daily Astoria
Officers had planned to begin clearing camps Tuesday after
posting cleanup notices and talking to campers last week. But police have delayed
the sweeps until Friday after two homeless people camping in the woods,
claiming disabilities, sent notices to the city under the Fair Housing Act.
They asked for more time to clean up their camps and find somewhere else to
go, Police Chief Geoff Spalding told the City Council.
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National
News
Supreme
Court rebuffs challenge to California gun restrictions
Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court for a second straight year refused on
Monday to hear a challenge to California's limits on carrying handguns in
public, dealing another setback to gun rights proponents.
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Justice
Department allocates $8.7M for active shooter training
The Washington
Times
The Justice Department announced a new $8.7 million grant
Thursday morning to fund active shooter training for first responders
across the country, just days after a gunman killed 11 at a Pittsburgh
synagogue.
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U.S. Department of Commerce Announces Six Leadership
Appointments to Board of FirstNet First Responder Network Authority
Commerce
Today,
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the appointment of six
leaders in public safety, technology and network financing to serve on the
Board of the FirstNet First Responder Network Authority.
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Jeff
Sessions unveils guidebook to help local authorities combat violent crime
Washington
Times
The Department of Justice has produced a guidebook to assist local law
enforcement efforts to reduce violent crime, Attorney General Jeff Sessions
said Tuesday.
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FBI assisting with search for girl abducted outside home
CBS News
The FBI has joined the search for a 13-year-old girl who
police said was abducted outside her home in
Lumberton, North Carolina. Investigators are following "a number of
leads" in the disappearance of Hania Aguilar, the FBI's Charlotte
field office said in a news release.
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New Federal Grants Seek to Boost Prosecutions of Gun
Ballistics Cases
The Trace
For almost two decades, the Department of Justice has been
urging police departments to use the National Integrated Ballistic
Information Network, an innovative ballistics system, to solve gun crimes.
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