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.
To get involved contact:
Legislative
Committee Chair Bob Homan.
OCDLA
Executive Director John Potter.
OCDLA Legislative Representative Gail Meyer.
OCDLA Legislative Representative Jennifer Williamson.
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
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.
Bills
of interest to OCDLA at close of February 2008 Special Session
Thursday, Sept. 9
12:30 p.m. in Salem, exact location TBA.
See the committee page for a list of Legislative Committee members or download a list here.
Gail Meyer
(503) 799-8483
Jennifer Williamson
(503) 781-7233