Parent University in Washington County (Oregon)
The Washington County Sheriff’s office is hosting a series of classes for parents. There is no specific class on When Can I Leave My Kids Home Alone? (the #1 question this blog gets, see here and here) on the agenda, but you can always ask the experts in the class.
Topics that will be included:
Just in time to help us solve the Oregon sentencing and the Portland/Beaverton baseball stadium disputes:
It’s a new month (October!) and the funniest judge in the country is still on the bench and online:
“Judge-Mental: Beds is considering a career in virtual reality”
The Oregon Supreme Court case that limited mandatory measure 11 sentences and that garnered a lot of headlines and commentary in September, was:
STATE OF OREGON v. RODRIGUEZ / BUCK (SC S055720), filed September 24, 2009:
The decisions of the Court of Appeals are affirmed in part and reversed in part. The judgments of the circuit courts are affirmed.
We not only admire civil servants who come up with creative solutions that save taxpayers money, we especially love it when managers ask and listen to their front line staff members who often have the best ideas on how to improve service and save money!
From the Washington County Sheriff’s Office
“Expanded Jail Visiting Schedule: Social and Professional Visits – Effective September 1
In an effort to stretch budget dollars during the economic downturn, the Washington County Jail implemented a new staffing schedule. Normally having fewer deputies available would mean fewer visiting hours for the public and professional visitors. However, thanks to innovative ideas from our jail staff, we implemented a series of schedule changes to meal times and other programs, so we are actually able to increase the number of available visiting hours from 36 to over 49 hours per week!”
OregonLive, and other news outlets, reported on the recent Multnomah County District Attorney 2009 audit: Audit: Multnomah County DA’s Office could communicate better with public, by Anne Saker, The Oregonian, September 14, 2009
You can find a full-text copy of the audit: Multnomah County District Attorney: Data, Technology, and Communication with the Public, September 2009, and other documents, at the Multnomah County Auditors website – and here is a direct link to the report.
We hear they are at it again (or even still), so put your shields up – and alert anyone who answers the telephone for your business.
FTC Sues to Halt Three Cross-Border Business Directory Scams
“The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit to halt the illegal operations of three telemarketing boiler rooms in Montreal, Canada. The agency alleged that the telemarketers bilked thousands of small- and medium-sized U.S. businesses and non-profits, including churches, schools, and charities, out of millions of dollars by deceiving them into paying for listings they never ordered in worthless business directories….” (link to FTC story)
It’s a new month (August!) and the funniest judge in the country is still on the bench and online:
In “A Ticket to Walk: Cap’n Crunch and the Other Terrorists” the good judge learns not to trust the law on the Internet, that cereals with the word “fruit” (or even frute or froot) in their names don’t necessarily contain fruit, and that “[a]ll that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to get too caught up in fantasy baseball.”
Justice Bedsworth, of the California Court of Appeals, returns with his not to be missed Criminal Waste of Space column in the Orange County Lawyer Magazine.
Assessment of State e-Government Services (from Law Librarian Blog):
“The National Center for Public Performance and the American Society for Public Administration have released U.S. States E-Governance Report (2008) An Assessment of State Websites, which evaluates security, usability and content of state websites, the type of online services being offered, and citizen response and participation….” (link to full post)
This program is part of the UO Portland Summer Spotlight series.
“Interested in how copyright law affects creative work? Itching to write your own version of copyright law? Curious to know how musicians and artists might talk to an entertainment attorney, and vice versa?
Join the UO Portland Library and Learning Commons at 6:30 pm on Thursday, July 16 for “Free Culture: Creating Copyright and Copyrighting Creation,” a lively discussion of copyright and the arts. UO alum and entertainment lawyer Peter Shaver will talk with Portland-based electropop trio YACHT, and will engage the audience in a real-time redraft of copyright law.
We all know how useful mock exams are – who wants to have take a test over and over again when it is possible to take a mock (aka practice) exam and learn your weak points, knowledge gaps, and how to cope with exam-jitters?!
If you think mocking is only for losers, think again. It’s really for winners. To Mock is Human, to Mock Exam Divine!
Visit the Pacific Northwest Paralegal Associations webpage, click on Seminars, and scroll down to the entry and application for:
Oregon Legal Research Blog