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City of Eugene Legislative Policies for 2009 Oregon Legislative Session <br /> <br />C6. Firearms Regulation <br /> <br /> <br />?Eugene supports strengthening reasonable requirements for the purchase of handguns. <br /> <br />The City will work to protect its regulatory authority with respect to firearms. Infringement on <br />these powers reduces the City's ability to protect its citizens from criminal acts involving firearms <br />and ignores the diversity among communities within this state. <br /> <br />C7. Local Ability to Deal With Unsupervised Youth <br /> <br /> <br />?Eugene supports local ability to detain runaways and other juveniles who are beyond <br />parental control and facilitate their referral to appropriate agencies. <br /> <br /> <br />?Eugene supports strengthening the ability of the juvenile system to intervene and provide <br />services to these juveniles. Some services currently are not available to them because they <br />have not committed "criminal" offenses. This reduces the ability of agencies to provide <br />services, and provides no incentive for the juvenile to change his or her behavior. <br /> <br />C8. Traffic Safety <br /> <br /> <br />?Eugene supports passage of laws which are practical in their application and will enhance <br />the safety of the public. <br /> <br />C9. Enforcement of Immigration Laws and Collection of Information <br /> <br /> <br />?Eugene opposes the broadening of the authority and responsibilities of local law <br />enforcement to conduct interviews to collect information on certain individuals not <br />suspected of a crime and/or detect and apprehend persons whose only offense is violation of <br />Federal immigration law. <br /> <br />C10. Use of Polygraph for Police Officer Hiring <br /> <br /> <br />?Eugene supports a revision to current State law (ORS 659A.300 and any other relevant <br />sections) so that a polygraph and/or other established technology for truth verification can <br />be used as part of the hiring process for police officers. <br /> <br />C11. Police Systems Development Charges (SDCs) <br /> <br /> <br />?Eugene supports expanding the existing definition of capital facilities for which SDCs can <br />be imposed to include police protection, to help offset the costs of new police/public safety <br />facilities as new growth places additional demands on city services. <br />. <br /> <br />C12. Health Hazard Exposure Information for Public Safety Employees <br /> <br /> <br />?Eugene supports ensuring, in cases where a public safety officer (e.g., police officer, <br />firefighter, paramedic) or court employee was exposed to bodily fluids of another person <br />while performing his/her duties, that the other person be required to submit to a blood test to <br /> <br />21 <br /> <br /> <br />