8/9/2011: Cincinnati, from the Chronicle.
Posts tagged as “Public Safety”
but instead our administration is spending the tuition increase on the new UO Police force: John Hawley, Director of Administrative Services in the Department of Public Safety (DPS), wishes to announce an interim appointment within the Administrative Services unit of DPS. The Campus Policing Initiative has been passed by the…
5/25/2011: Kitzhaber signed the UO Police bill, SB405, Thursday. A letter to the editor in the RG raises a problem with the UO Police legislation that I hadn’t considered: Be wary of UO having its own police I have no official affiliation with the University of Oregon but I would…
6/15/2011: Steve Duin of the Oregonian uses words, to equal effect, on the UO armed police legislation: Yes, I think we can all agree that something drastic must be done to stop University of Oregon cornerback Cliff Harris from red-lining another rental car and further terrorizing the highways and byways…
6/14/2011: The UO administration blows another $1 million of other people’s money, with Floyd Prozanski’s blessing. The comments on this Oregonian story are pretty opposed.
6/3/2011: The administration started the year by ignoring student opposition to spending millions of their tuition money on armed, sworn police – while condescendingly telling them, and the faculty, that they had been consulted and informed, and that the proposal would actually save us $76,000 a year. ASUO President Amelie…
6/1/2011: From Rockne Andrew Roll in the ODE: One of those opponents was Rep. Gene Whisnant (R-Sunriver), who thought more discussion was necessary before moving forward. Though Whisnant described himself as a public safety supporter, he thought the proposal was too expensive. “I thought it was an overkill,” Whisnant said.…
5/30/2011: When UO has its own sworn police patrolling off campus, they’ll likely be able to keep this sort of thing out of the papers by claiming FERPA prevents them from releasing the info. They already do this for on campus offenses. Note that the EPD cops who got this…
5/26/2011: First it was Doug Tripp’s bomb-sniffing puppy. Now they’ve started the spin for a UO SWAT team. Mr. Roll delivers the fear in the ODE, without a hint of skepticism. Remarkable: Campus shootings have become an increasing risk in recent years. They can happen at anytime, without warning, often…
5/23/2011: Frances Dyke’s “liar’s budget” says sworn armed UO police will cost us the equivalent of 3 RA positions a year. The truth is it has already cost us about 20 – the budget is up $500,000 or so. Why is a sworn police force UO’s top priority? From the…
5/11/2011: Two interesting stories in the ODE. Nora Simon has a retrospective on UO Senate President Nathan Tublitz’s term: Shared governance means the Senate and the administration have joint power to make decisions that affect the University, according to the University’s charter, and Tublitz has fought to keep that relationship…
4/26/2011: From Mat Wolf in the ODE: An official complaint alleging sexual harassment and unlawful employment practices within the University’s Department of Public Safety was filed with the state Bureau of Labor and Industries last summer. In the complaint, Jennifer Parker, a former DPS employee whose employment was terminated on…
4/21/2011: Mat Wolf in the ODE: SEIU Chief Steward Gary Malone said he had received complaints about questionable behavior by one specific male DPS employee toward three individual female department employees during the last five years. (I’ve had several comments on this situation. I don’t intend to post any until…
4/19/2011: From Saul Hubbard in the RG. The vote was pretty much split on party lines: Democrats for, Republicans against. When the Oregon Republicans vote as a block against a law and order bill because they think it it in an unconscionable infringement on the liberties of those uppity pinko…
4/18/2011: From Maxine Bernstein in the Oregonian. He was not armed, fortunately. OSU contracts with the Oregon state police for armed officers in those unusual cases where they are needed. When it comes to the debate over an armed and sworn UO police force, I can see arguing this one…