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Mental health facility set to open in January
Officials seek to bolster laws allowing wiretapping Law enforcement lags as carriers upgrade services and systems
By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
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Susan Ross, director of the Deschutes County Property and Facilities Department, shows the great room in the new locked mental health facility in Bend during a tour Monday. The facility will serve patients who need less care than is provided at the Oregon State Hospital but who aren’t ready for more residential treatment.
Deschutes County is putting the finishing details on a new locked facility in Bend for 16 state mental health patients who were committed to state facilities or found guilty except for insanity by the courts. The facility, estimated to cost $2 million, will help to fill in a missing piece in the services provided for the mentally ill in the region. The patients need less care than provided at the Oregon State Hospital but are not ready for more residential treatment. Residents at the new facility will not be able to come and go at will. Some might earn privileges
to go on outings, first with staff and later on their own, based on clinical evaluations. “We don’t have this level of service now, so individuals who have needed this kind of facility have had to go elsewhere in the state,” said county Adult Treatment Program Manager Lori Hill. The building, called the Deschutes Recovery Center, will likely open in January, she said. Deschutes County will lease the facility at 20370 Poe Sholes Road in Bend to Telecare Corp., a private company that will operate the secure residential treatment facility for the state Addiction and Mental Health Division. See Facility / A4
By Charlie Savage New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON — Law enforcement and counterterrorism officials, citing lapses in compliance with surveillance orders, are pushing to overhaul a federal law that requires phone and broadband carriers to ensure that their networks can be wiretapped, federal officials say. The officials say tougher legislation is needed because some telecommunications companies in recent years have begun new services and made system upgrades that create technical obstacles to surveillance. They want to increase legal incentives and penalties aimed at pushing carriers like Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast to ensure that any network changes will not disrupt their ability to conduct wiretaps. An Obama administration task force that includes officials from the Justice and Commerce departments, the FBI and other agencies recently began working on draft legislation to strengthen and expand a 1994 law requiring carriers to make sure their systems can be wiretapped. There is not yet agreement over the details, according to officials familiar with the deliberations, but they said the administration intends to submit a package to Congress next year. To bolster their case, security agencies are citing two previously undisclosed episodes in which major carriers were stymied for weeks or even months when they tried to comply with court-approved wiretap orders in criminal or terrorism investigations, the officials said. See Wiretapping / A6
Investigating a killing: Police and volunteers comb downtown Bend neighborhood for weapon used in attack, other evidence
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Deschutes County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue crews searched a large section of northwest Bend around downtown on Monday for evidence related to a reported homicide on Northwest Georgia Avenue on Sunday evening. Ne wp 97 ort Av e. Greenwood Ave.
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olice and search and rescue crews fanned out around downtown Bend on Monday, searching for a bloody baseball bat or other weapon that may have been used to kill a Bend man Sunday evening. At about 8:45 p.m. Sunday, an anonymous caller reported that there was an argument happening somewhere on Northwest Georgia Avenue near the intersection of Northwest Staats Street. Officers checked the area, but didn’t find anything suspicious. About a half-hour later, 911 dispatchers got another call: a neighbor reporting that he’d
found a man with serious head injuries. The caller gave the address, in the 600 block of Northwest Georgia Avenue, and soon the area was flooded with police officers and medics. The victim, whom police have identified only as an adult male, was still alive when police arrived. He was taken to St. Charles Bend by ambulance and later died of his injuries. Capt. Jim Porter said officers arrested a person of interest later Sunday evening on an unrelated charge of violating his probation. He said the two men involved in the incident knew each other and police do not believe members of the public are at risk. See Killing / A6
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WASHINGTON — The Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, aimed at lowering the volume on loud TV ads, appears headed for approval. But a bill seeking to squash another annoyance, the Don’t Let the Bed Bugs Bite Act, is likely to fail. And the sponsor of the All-American Flag Act must figure that the bill’s name alone should ensure its success. With time running out on the congressional session, lawmakers are scrambling to get hundreds of their pet bills across the finish line, competing for attention against headlinegrabbing issues such as whether to extend the George W. Bushera tax cuts or end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for gays and lesbians in the military. If lawmakers fall short during the lame-duck session after the Nov. 2 election, they will be forced to start over next year, perhaps against longer odds — that is, if they are still in office. The workaday legislation awaiting action seemingly covers everything under the sun — including the Solar Uniting Neighborhoods, or SUN, Act. Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., wants Congress to honor Chi Chi Rodriguez, who “will go down as one of the all-time greats in golf history,” the congressman said when introducing legislation to recognize Rodriguez’s charitable work. See Bills / A4
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Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue volunteers Teri Shamlian, left, and Mike Mauer search for evidence in a yard on Northwest Georgia Avenue in Bend on Monday. Crews spent the day looking for an aluminum baseball bat or other weapon believed to have been used to kill a Bend man on Sunday evening.
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Navy hopes to win race to find famous shipwreck
“Sometimes that passion (for underwater archaeology) works for us. Sometimes it makes work for us.” — Bob Neyland, archaeologist with the U.S. Navy
By Annys Shin The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Capt. Ahab had Moby Dick. Bob Neyland’s white whale is the Bonhomme Richard. For decades, thrillseekers, archeologists and professional treasure hunters have searched for the wreckage of the USS Bonhomme Richard, a Continental Astrid Riecken / For the Washington Post
Navy ship captained by John Paul Jones during the Revolutionary War that sank on Sept. 25, 1779, off the coast of Yorkshire, England, in the choppy waters of the North Sea. But the ship is legally the property of the U.S. Navy, which is responsible for preserving whatever may be left of it. A big part of that job falls to Neyland,
chief archaeologist for the Navy’s Underwater Archeology Branch, based at the Washington Navy Yard. The tiny unit is responsible for identifying and preserving sunken and historically important Navy vessels from colonialera warships to World War II fighter planes. See Shipwreck / A6