News: OCDLA Legislative Committee

2010 Interim Session

The OCDLA Legislative Committee, with the help of one full-time susbstantive issues lobbyist and one fiscal issues lobbyist, works to draft and promote legislation beneficial to the criminal justice system and to protect the constitutional and statutory rights of those accused of crime.

The committee opposes legislation that would erode an individual’s constitutional rights and legislation that creates penalties that fall unequally upon those subjected to them.

The committee also works to secure adequate funding for the public defense function and to raise the quality of both juvenile and adult representation.

Legislative Committee Meeting

Friday, January 29, 2010, 10 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Willamette University | Map
Goudy Commons, Wison Room
Salem, OR

Agenda
1. Identify core principles of criminal jurisprudence that OCDLA should further through legislation.
2. Identify core legislative reforms that OCDLA wants to undertake in next six to eight years.

To get involved contact:
Legislative Committee Chair Bob Homan, Email
OCDLA Executive Director John Potter, Email
OCDLA Legislative Representative Gail Meyer, Email

2009 Session Documents

Read Sine Die! by Gail Meyer, OCDLA Substantive Issues Lobbyist
OCDLA Legislative Concepts for 2009
ODAA Legislative Concepts for 2009
2007-2009 Interim Workgroups/Task Forces and Other Likely Bills

Pre-2009 Session Documents

Measure 57 Summary — Legislative Referral, creates enhanced sentences for certain property and drug offenders.

See “View From Here—Lesser of Two Evils” by Greg Hazarabedian, OCDLA President, in the September/October 2008 Oregon Defense Attorney for a discussion of both Measure 57 and Measure 61, the “Mannix Mandatory Miminum Measure” and a comparison chart of the two.