Item B: 2009 Legislative Policies Document

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