4/5/2011: President Lariviere’s UO Freedom legislation is off the table until the next session, and apparently many other education bills are also stuck in the House Ed committee. But the state Senate seems to be rolling right along with the bill to allow UO to convert DPS to an armed,…
Posts tagged as “Public Safety”
3/24/2011: From Ryan Cummings at KMTR. Once we pay to train them and they become sworn officers, they can retire 5 years early with full PERS. And then get another job. Why aren’t we pushing for more mental health counselors instead? Ask the legislation’s sponsor, Floyd Prozanski, or UO’s VP…
3/16/2011: If these people are going to be carrying guns on campus, their qualifications should be in plain view. So 6 weeks ago I asked for the cover letters and resumes for UO’s current Public Safety Director and his two predecessors. Denied. It took more than a month, and a…
3/11/2011: The first thing the student newspaper wants to know about Doug Tripp and Ed Rinne’s $50,499 proposal for a bomb-sniffing dog is if it will know how to sniff out drugs too: “There are no thoughts, ideas or plans on ever obtaining a drug dog; but having an Explosives…
3/9/2011: Comments are heavily in favor of the surplus office and some obscure but important sounding A/R thing. Also support for a dedicated staff training room. Makes sense. Then for video conferencing for central admin – doesn’t everyone use skype for that? Here’s one on the Diversity police academy idea:…
3/1/2011: In response to a comment. Student numbers are up 10% since 2005. The Public Safety budget has doubled. (Ignore the parking component, it includes revenues.) Now they want a dog, too.
2/26/2011: Oregonians believe crime is on the rise when, in fact, it’s at record-low levels, a Portland State University survey finds Story here, from Katy Muldoon in the Oregonian. Mat Wolf has a story in the ODE, repeating Doug Tripp and Frances Dykes tired arguments for this change – which…
2/8/2011 update: Liz Denecke responds to our request for a little transparency about the current DPS Director and his two predecessors: Nice to hear from you. As to your first request, the resumes and cover letters from theemployment applications for Richard Turkiewicz, Kevin Williams, andDouglas Tripp became faculty records once…
at the UO Police Force meeting today, 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Feb 2, in the Fir Room of the EMU: 1) As you know your previous two hires as DPS Director did not have their contracts renewed, under odd circumstances. The first was Richard Turkiewicz, whom you hired from…
2/1/2011: Matt Wolf in the ODE reports that VP for Finance Frances Dyke’s budget claims that: … The fiscal impact statement indicates that the passage of SB 116, which would allow for the transition of the Department of Public Safety into a sworn police agency, would have a minimal financial…
1/31/2011: The decisions have all been made, the bills are in front of the legislature, Frances Dyke has written a blank check out of the general tuition fund. Hiring is under way and firearms training has commenced. Now it’s time to ask the students, faculty and staff for input: Jan.…
http://uopubsafety.blogspot.com/ On Friday, January 28, 2011, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., the University of Oregon will host “Coffee with the Chief” in the Mills International Center. Chief Doug Tripp from the University Of Oregon Department Of Public Safety (UODPS) will be joined by Assistant Chief Carolyn McDermed, Dean of…
1/20/2011: Rumor has it that Frances Dyke has struck again, firing longtime DPS Captain Herb Horner. Apparently she decided she could blame him for the Matt Court $10 parking screw-up. My understanding is that Horner held DPS together through two of Ms. Dyke’s botched DPS Director hires: Richard Turkiewicz and…
1/16/2011: An anonymous reader provides a simple explanation for why UO’s Department of Public Safety has been so aggressive about their bizarre plan to convert to a sworn police force. It’s not the guns, it’s the money. Specifically the fat retirement benefits. From the PERS website: and sure enough, while…
1/14/2011: Mat Wolf has a story in the ODE on an armed UO Police Force. DPS Director Doug Tripp has told various groups different things, he now makes it clear that he wants guns. What will it cost? On Nov. 17, the Emerald obtained documents of what appears to be…