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Amanda Fritz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Property Impound (PPI) towing in Portland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Wheeler, Auditor Hull Caballero, and Commissioners:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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call your attention to where the City’s Private Property Impound (PPI) system
operates in violation of state law and specifically to the detriment of
low-income apartment residents and immigrant populations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">Given the state
of the City’s ongoing housing crisis, tenant protection concerns and rising
costs, I believe that a new urgency exists regarding this issue, which I have
previously brought before Council from time to time over a number of years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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concerned about the erosions of citizen protections against towing abuses and
unfair trade practices that have taken place since and despite the towing
reforms enacted in the 2007 legislative session through changes in how the
City’s PPI program has been managed: generally, backing off from enforcing
state law; creating a citizen-unfriendly problem-resolution process; and,
providing no opportunity for citizen input into the system itself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">The prices that
the City has authorized the towers to charge vehicle owners reflect both the
lack of competition among the PPI towers and the erosion of pricing protections
and other abuse protections that the City once afforded the general public, but
which have since gone away, and without an open, public process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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communities are also disadvantaged in the lack of clarity in what “Citizen
Rights” might or might not apply to them, as they are not U.S. citizens and may
not be fluent in English. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">There is nothing
in City PPI towing ordinances that addresses vehicles operated by persons with
disabilities. They have, for example, the same amount of time to redeem their
vehicle or to arrange transportation as does a person without disabilities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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system was built over time around an arrangement that certain Portland towing
companies reached with each other and with certain commercial property owners
and management companies whereby the towers provide their “goods and services”
at no cost to these certain customers in exchange for the privilege of towing
vehicles from the subject property, despite the fact that the practice is
forbidden in statute. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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vehicles from a parking facility. For the purposes of this paragraph, the
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">The former Towing
Coordinator defended this arrangement, arguing that since the towers all
provide the service for free, the fair market value of the towers’ goods and
services is “zero.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">The towers
recover their costs and manufacture their profits by imposing a pricing scheme onto
the public, who stand at further risk of losing their vehicles to the towers if
they are unable to pay the fees demanded at the time the tow is made. Towers
pay their employees on a commission system and use other tactics to ensure that
their drivers are towing vehicles aggressively enough.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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which this practice operates to the detriment of the public is that the system
contains no incentives for towers to compete with one another by offering to do
the job more efficiently or for less money, since they have all agreed to
provide towing services to this certain class of customers for free. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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taken by the 2007 legislature was to add <b>ORS
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person’s business, vocation or occupation the person does any of the following:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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current approved PPI rates for Class A and B vehicles <i>might </i>define the Fair Market Value (FMV) of the towing goods and
services that these towers are providing for free if it was clear who the
willing “buyer” might be, since it is clearly not the general public and
certain property owners and managers are getting their towing goods and
services for free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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system also appears to be in violation of Oregon’s Anti-Price Discrimination
Law:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">ORS 646.010</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">¹ <b>Designation
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">ORS 646.010</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> … to <b>646.180</b> … shall be known and designated as the Anti-price
Discrimination Law; and the inhibitions against discrimination in those sections
shall embrace any scheme of special concessions or rebates, any collateral
contracts or agreements or any device of any nature whereby discrimination is,
in substance or fact, effected in violation of the spirit and intent of ORS
646.010 (Designation and scope of ORS 646.010 to 646.180) to 646.180 (Illegal
contracts).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">(1) It is unlawful for any person engaged in commerce
…(who) in the course of such commerce, either directly or indirectly, to
discriminate in price between different purchasers of commodities, or services
or output of a service trade, of like grade and quality or to discriminate in
price between different sections, communities or cities or portions thereof or
between different locations in sections, communities, cities or portions
thereof in this state, where the effect of such discrimination may be
substantially to lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly in any line of
commerce, or to injure, destroy or prevent competition with any person who either
grants or knowingly receives the benefit of such discrimination, or with
customers of either of them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">Erosion of the
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the City would not permit PPI towers to charge fees for mileage, dollies and
photographs, etc. but does so now. These prices also include a hidden $ 20.00
signage fee, the result of an arbitrary formula created by the former Towing
Coordinator, intended to compensate the tower for the costs of any signage the
tower might have placed on the subject property, with no upper limit as to when
the signs – if they exist at all – are fully paid for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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period, in order to increase profits, PPI towers and their client property
owners and managers have added at least one towable “offense” that at minimum
is a violation of landlord – tenant law. Some apartment complexes have adopted
a “No Back-In Parking” rule that subjects tenants and guests to immediate
towing without further notice simply for failing to park their otherwise-in-compliance
vehicles nose-in. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sign rental agreements where they specifically agree to have their vehicle
towed without further notice, and without being fully informed of their rights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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creating towing opportunities for drivers working on commission, the <i>No Back-In Parking</i> rule appears to exist
only so that drivers can troll a parking facility more easily, with no other
benefit accruing to either the tenant or property owner/manager.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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section included in a rental agreement is unenforceable. If a landlord
deliberately uses a rental agreement containing provisions known by the
landlord to be prohibited and attempts to enforce such provisions, the tenant
may recover in addition to the actual damages of the tenant an amount up to
three months’ periodic rent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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or regulation, however described, concerning the tenant’s use and occupancy of
the premises. It is enforceable against the tenant only if:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(ORS 98.850 to 98.864), the link takes members of the public to a page listing 91
statutes by title, of which <b>ORS 98.854
Restrictions on Towers</b> is buried 81 titles deep. Most of these titles are
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Towing and PPI Program: Improper tows, fees charged, signs, tower conduct
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vehicle removal: </span><a href="http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/90.485" title="ORS Chapter 90, Residential Landlord & Tenant"><span style="background: #0099cc; border: none 1.0pt; color: white; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none;">ORS
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years published a monthly listing of all PPI tows taking place; however, that
practice ended in November 2016. No reason for this change is posted on the
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towed under the PPI system during November, the majority from low-income
apartment complexes. Each tow drains some $ 200+ dollars at minimum from the
tenant’s cash resources and imposes significant hours of time and much stress
on the end recipient of the program’s “free” goods and services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial;">In conclusion, I
want to note that the Legislative Assembly stated its intent regarding
involuntary towing in the 2007 session in <b>ORS
98.850</b>. I hope that the City considers these facts and those stated herein
and acts immediately to suspend its Private Property Impound towing program and
to focus some resources on assisting those members of the public whose vehicles
were towed in violation of Oregon state law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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avoiding involuntary loss of use of motor vehicles and in expediting recovery
of motor vehicles and the personal property in the motor vehicles promote the
safety and welfare of members of the public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30929496.post-6401686875954319702017-02-04T13:21:00.000-08:002017-02-04T13:21:25.245-08:00The Trumpian Catastrophe Unfolding: NO Inauguration NO Coronation NO Junta NO Trump<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Constitution does
not have a solution for the Trumpian Catastrophe, and the overwhelming majority
of Americans will never accept this loathsome caricature of a man as President.
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We will never accept
Trump's assumption of king-like powers, or hold him immune from releasing his
tax returns and every other last vestige of traditional Presidential
accountability. We cannot allow him to assume the powers and protections of
Presidential Privilege that go with the most important job on the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are in the greatest
Constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a Presidential election tainted
by Russian intrusions and pro-Russian factions within the GOP, with the Nation
divided Trump/Russia Red and Never Trump Blue, and with a GOP-weakened,
short-handed Supreme Court, so far standing silently on the sidelines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trump has spent his
entire campaign in the safe cocoon of rallies and tweets and his gold-plated
real estate empire, but that will all change on January 20. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">With the whole world watching, Donald Trump
openly declared his assumption of king-like powers on January 11 at his first
press conference as the President-Elect, declaring himself above scrutiny by
the public, by the legitimate press as well as the IRS, immune to
conflict-of-interest issues and laying the foundation of what he believes will
be a Trumpian dynasty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The King can do no wrong – by definition - because
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<span style="background: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Broadcast live from deep within the gilded bowels
of Trump Tower, King Trump used the podium Mussolini-like, to bully and
threaten a too-critical press against the backdrop of a line of flags, while simultaneously
doubling down on his affection for Vladimir Putin and disrespect for the
Nation’s intelligence and security professionals as well as every category of
federal employee wholesale, undermining American confidence in these
institutions in the same breath. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">America’s adversaries in Russia, China, North
Korea and the Middle East are all starting to believe in Christmas, as the man
Trump -- this gross caricature of a man Trump -- betrays his incompetence, his broad
ignorance and the limits of his ability to understand complex issues every time
he opens his mouth in public. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">This American king is openly stupid, they
assess. He will behave like the vain, ignorant thug that he is, becoming ever
more thuggish as he discovers the practical limits of keeping his ever-shifting
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<span style="background: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">For many long minutes, King Trump turned his
press conference over to one of his business lawyers and the piles of files he
used as stage props to “reassure” Americans that there was nothing to be
concerned about here, nothing new to learn and the matter is settled. It's all
about deals, she said, deals and deals, very big deals, over and over....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Thus is so, declared the King.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #4b4f56; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">With the looming Trumpian Inauga-Coronation, America
turns inward upon itself, splintering into Trump-Russia Red and No-Way-Trump Blue,
as it last splintered Rebel Grey and Union Blue, and before that Patriot Blue
and Redcoat Red.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Trumpian Catastrophe, facing the third great threat to the existence of the
Union itself. With Trump’s elevation to the Presidency, the Nation is about to
undergo a Convulsion, and it will be awful. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">I think that we need to
recognize that we are now facing an unprecedented Constitutional crisis with
the Nation plunged into a State of Emergency, divided as deeply as during the Revolutionary
and Civil War eras and facing unprecedented threats from both without and --
with the elevation of the loathsome beast Donald Trump -- from within.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">The Nation is also at
risk with a GOP-weakened and short-handed Supreme Court. It is Christmastime at
the KGB for the next four years....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">With every passing day,
T<span class="textexposedshow">rump demonstrates his unworthiness, unfitness and
untrustworthiness again and again. His picks are guaranteed to divide the
Nation more deeply and his team's relationship(s) with Russia and disdain for
our institutions and the free press are the Clear and Present Danger that
cannot be "given a chance" in any respect.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30929496.post-10927579626506582132017-02-03T21:47:00.000-08:002017-02-04T13:23:57.837-08:00Oregon's landmark child abduction law explained<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">State Representative Linda Flores (R) Clackamas explained how Oregon's landmark child abduction law ORS 30.868 was designed to work when she carried Senate Bill 1041 (2005) on the House floor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30929496.post-73688257250710675262015-11-29T19:59:00.001-08:002017-02-03T21:20:34.193-08:00Oregon's landmark child abduction law - House Judiciary hearing<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="73lnk-0-0" style="background-color: white; color: #373e4d; direction: ltr; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="73lnk-0-0">Much unfinished business: 6 years after my time in the Oregon Senate ended, and 10 years after the death of my son Aaron Cruz, I testified on child abduction before the House Judiciary Committee during the 2015 legislative session. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="auh96-0-0">Abducting a child has lifelong consequences, and those persons who think about participating in a kidnapping need to understand that they are in it for life. To those who participated in the kidnapping of my children, know that I am coming for you....</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "liberationserif"; mso-bidi-font-family: LiberationSerif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">COMMISSION<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "liberationserif"; mso-bidi-font-family: LiberationSerif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Case No.: </span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">15CV25027<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "liberationserif"; mso-bidi-font-family: LiberationSerif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Dept. No.:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "liberationserif"; mso-bidi-font-family: LiberationSerif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Date of Hearing:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1. In the Spring of 2013, DEFENDANTS
The </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Oregon</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Cultural Heritage Commission<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(OCHC) and its president David
Milholland, and PLAINTIFF entered in good faith into<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">a staged, 3-year production
Agreement to create the Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(JPNAF), a new </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Oregon</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> nonprofit corporation whose signature event would be to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">produce a festival which would take
place annually on the campus of Parkrose High<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">School in </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Portland</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, celebrating the legacy of the late, great Native
American musician<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim Pepper, </span><st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">AND</span></st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> that at
the same time would serve as a celebration marking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS' alleged 25-year history
of allegedly successfully producing cultural<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">events across the state of </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Oregon</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2. PLAINTIFF alleges that DEFENDANTS
the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(OCHC) is a sham entity with no
public charge or official status, maintaining no regular<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">place of business and no regular
days or hours of business, no listed or posted phone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">number and no physical address, so
that the Multnomah County Sheriff was unable to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">serve a Summons on DEFENDANTS, and
that these facts were contributing factors to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">problems and difficulties PLAINTIFF
encountered at all times in attempting to carry out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the Agreement in good faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3. PLAINTIFF alleges that during the
course of carrying out this Agreement<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS engaged in deceptive
practices including false advertising and made<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">false representations to PLAINTIFF
upon which PLAINTIFF relied, causing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF to suffer great injury and
loss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4. PLAINTIFF alleges that
DEFENDANTS' board meetings, held in a conference room<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">at the law offices of Tonkin Torp,
are intended to impress, deceive and mislead<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">visitors, including PLAINTIFF, into
believing that the Oregon Cultural Heritage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Commission has stature that it does
not in fact possess, causing PLAINTIFF to rely on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS' fraudulent
representations, and suffering great harm as a result.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">5. PLAINTIFF alleges that
DEFENDANTS' true place of business is within a hidey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">hole loft dwelling occupied by
DEFENDANT'S President Mr. David Milholland on an<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">upper floor above an unrelated
business on </span><st1:street><st1:address><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">NE 42</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; font-size: 7.0pt;">nd </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Street</span></st1:address></st1:street><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, with no exterior markings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">identifying either OCHC or Mr.
Milholland, no buzzer and no means of entry to the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">building if the unrelated business
is not open, all of which factors combined to make<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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difficult, costlier in time spent, and at times<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">impossible, as appears to be
DEFENDANTS' intent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission's<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">membership has been restricted to
white or Caucasian people over the entire course<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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remaining so today, and maintains that this fact<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">created conflicts between PLAINTIFF
and DEFENDANTS that were due to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS' ethnic and racial biases
that worked to the detriment of PLAINTIFF'S<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">good faith efforts to carry out the
Agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">7. PLAINTIFF alleges that DEFENDANTS
are in breach of contract and owe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF compensation for work
performed as a result of said Agreement, as a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">result of PLAINTIFF'S reliance on
DEFENDANTS' deceptive and fraudulent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">representations, and as a
consequence of DEFENDANTS' willful and/or negligent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">mismanagement of the Project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">8. PLAINTIFF alleges that DEFENDANTS
directed PLAINTIFF to invite artists to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">perform at the 2013 Jim Pepper
Native Arts Festival regardless of funding identified<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and committed to support the
expenses of the event.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">9. PLAINTIFF alleges that DEFENDANTS
encouraged PLAINTIFF to work on behalf<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">of DEFENDANTS' 25-year celebration
and the Project regardless of funding identified<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and committed to support PLAINTIFF'S
work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">10. PLAINTIFF alleges that
DEFENDANTS directed PLAINTIFF to hire additional<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">artists for August 7 and August 8
Festival performances after PLAINTIFF had already<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">canceled other artists previously
scheduled to perform on those dates and after<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF had recommended canceling
the dates entirely, causing PLAINTIFF to be<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">resented by the canceled artists,
creating additional damage to PLAINTIFF'S<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">reputation, additional economic
losses and further emotional distress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">11. PLAINTIFF alleges that
DEFENDANTS deliberately misled both PLAINTIFF and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">National</span></st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Museum</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> of the American Indian staff, causing both to believe
that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS would comply with the
terms of the </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">loan contract, which<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">included the requirement that
DEFENDANTS provide insurance coverage for four<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">days, when DEFENDANTS knew that
DEFENDANTS would in fact NOT comply with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the contract, causing financial
loss, damage to PLAINTIFF'S reputation and additional<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">emotional distress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">12. PLAINTIFF alleges that
DEFENDANTS knew in advance that the </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibit would NOT be shipped to </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Portland</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, because DEFENDANTS had secretly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">made a decision to NOT provide the
insurance rider at some point in advance of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">festival event, and concealed their
decision from both PLAINTIFF and the National<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Museum of the American Indian,
causing financial loss to both parties, damage to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF'S reputation and
additional emotional distress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">13. PLAINTIFF alleges that
DEFENDANTS continued to advertise that free admission<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to the </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibit
would be featured at the Festival up to and including August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">7-10, the dates of the Festival event,
through printed posters and on DEFENDANTS'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">website and elsewhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">14. PLAINTIFF alleges that four days
prior to the Festival, on Saturday, August 3,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">despite having sole and exclusive
knowledge that </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">would NOT be coming to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:city><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Portland</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, since DEFENDANTS had decided NOT to comply with their
agreement with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the Museum, DEFENDANT MR. DAVID
MILHOLLAND personally designed a poster<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">advertising the </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibit
as “Free to All”, and proclaiming “The Jim Pepper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Native Arts Festival is a project of
the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission 501(c)(3)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">celebrating its 25</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; font-size: 7.0pt;">th </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">year and a 1000 Nations production.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">15. PLAINTIFF alleges that on </span><st1:date day="3" month="8" year="2013"><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Saturday,
August 3, 2013</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, DEFENDANT MR.
DAVID<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">MILHOLLAND provided said poster in
electronic format to PLAINTIFF expressly for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the creation of printed posters,
social media postings and other electronic media,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">which PLAINTIFF took in good faith
to be truthful statements and acted accordingly,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">resulting in great harm, financial
loss and emotional distress.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">16. PLAINTIFF alleges that
immediately following the festival, DEFENDANTS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">disappeared from the face of the
Earth, refusing to answer or return PLAINTIFF'S<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">telephone calls or to respond to
PLAINTIFF'S emails, and the fact that DEFENDANTS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">maintain no regular place, days or
hours of business made it impossible for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF to proceed with the tasks
that were ordinarily routine in the aftermath of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">similar festival events as well as
those that were necessitated by DEFENDANTS'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">grossly negligent and/or fraudulent
actions before and during the course of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Festival, as well as thereafter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">17. PLAINTIFF alleges that in order
to force contact with DEFENDANTS—since<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS maintain no regular
place, hours or days of business—PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">resorted to searching out through
the Secretary State Corporation Division filings to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">locate the only physical address in
DEFENDANTS' history of filings other than the law<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">offices of Tonkin Torp, which was
that for Mr. Walt Curtis, DEFENDANT'S board<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">secretary, and PLAINTIFF staked out
the location until PLAINTIFF was able to make<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">contact with Mr. Curtis on </span><st1:date day="5" month="9" year="2013"><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">September 5,
2013</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, and with Mr. Curtis' assistance
made<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">telephone contact with DEFENDANTS
President David Milholland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">18. PLAINTIFF alleges that only
after taking these extraordinary steps was<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF able to make contact with
DEFENDANTS in the person of its President<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">David Milholland, by telephone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">19. PLAINTIFF alleges that the fact
that DEFENDANTS The Oregon Cultural Heritage<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Commission intentionally maintains
no physical place of business, no regular days or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">hours of business, and no reasonable
means for any person to contact said<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS, who appear to meet only
privately and occasionally in the law offices<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">of Tonkin Torp as prelude to a
drinking party taking place immediately afterwards, has<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">unfairly left PLAINTIFF—who only
acted at the direction of DEFENDANTS and relying<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">in good faith on DEFENDANTS' fraudulent
representations—as the target of rumor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and dissatisfaction by all parties,
whether sponsors, performers, ticket buyers or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">contractors, or the general public,
and suffering great harm, loss of reputation,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">emotional distress and other
damages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">20. PLAINTIFF alleges that as a
result of DEFENDANTS' grossly negligent and/or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">willful mismanagement of the 2013
Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival, which includes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">frequent disappearances at critical
times, PLAINTIFF has suffered a campaign of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">defamation and harassment from Mr.
David Grafe, a disgruntled sound engineer, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">his company </span><st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PDX</span></st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Audio
over the course of the past two years that has caused<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF additional great harm,
loss of reputation, emotional distress and other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">damages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">21. PLAINTIFF alleges that
DEFENDANTS, in the person of its President David<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Milholland, deliberately attempted
to cause PLAINTIFF great harm by knowingly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">causing PLAINTIFF to show publicly
the documentary film “PEPPER'S POWWOW”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">without having the proper license
and authorization from the film maker to do so, thus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exposing PLAINTIFF to civil suit,
monetary damages and further loss of reputation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">22. PLAINTIFF alleges that
DEFENDANTS—who were in complete custody and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">control of all financial aspects of
the project at all times—failed to follow generally<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">accepted accounting principles,
failed to keep honest and accurate records, and failed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to make and deliver honest, timely
and accurate financial reports to sponsors,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">partners, grantors (some of whom
received NO report), or to PLAINTIFF and the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">project Steering Committee, all of
which has served to harm PLAINTIFF's reputation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and cause PLAINTIFF to suffer other
damages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansbold"; font-size: 16.0pt;">STATEMENT
OF FACTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1. The Jim Pepper Native Arts
Festival was PLAINTIFF's idea, stemming from the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">time that PLAINTIFF served as
Senator </span><st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Avel Gordly</span></st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">'s chief of staff, and arising from<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the fact that PLAINTIFF unknowingly
purchased the family home of Jim Pepper in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2002, only later learning of his
great musical and cultural legacy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2. PLAINTIFF drafted Senator
Gordly's Senate Joint Resolution, </span><st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">SJR</span></st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> 31—honoring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the late, great Native American
musician Jim Pepper's life and works—in May, 2005,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and his music and spirit came to be
tremendously important to PLAINTIFF both<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">personally and professionally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3. PLAINTIFF'S son Aaron Cruz passed
away in late April, 2005 and was buried on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">May 3, during the 2005 legislative
session. Researching and drafting the Jim Pepper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">resolution helped PLAINTIFF get
through the month of May and the rest of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">session, and became PLAINTIFF'S “Happy
Place” as he worked through the grief,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and Jim Pepper's music, life story
and legacy continues to play a vital therapeutic role<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">in PLAINTIFF'S life as he copes with
a long-term diagnosis of clinical depression and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PTSD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">4. In early 2013, through a series
of meetings conducted over several months that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">included OCHC's board of directors,
members of a Steering Committee that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF was in the process of
forming, and other members of the community and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">potential sponsors and partners,
OCHC President David Milholland and PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">developed a plan whereby:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A. JPNAF would be produced
and promoted in 2013 as a celebration of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANT OCHC's 25-year history of
producing a wide variety of cultural events<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">across the state of </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Oregon</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">B. PLAINTIFF'S company,
1000 Nations, would manage the project under OCHC's<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">supervision and control, and over
the course of a three-year period JPNAF would<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">become an independently operating </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Oregon</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> nonprofit corporation with paid staff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">C. Mr. Milholland and OCHC
would receive, control, manage and disburse all funds<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">related to the project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">D. Mr. Milholland and OCHC
would have sole contracting authority pertaining to the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">E. Agreements between
DEFENDANTS and PLAINTIFF as well as agreements<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">between the Parties and other
Parties were largely verbal, however the terms of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">such are evidenced in the
documentation created during the course of the Project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">F. PLAINTIFF'S fee for
producing this joint celebration of OCHC and Jim Pepper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">would be $ 400 per week in cash plus
a tax credit for $ 400 per week as<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF'S in-kind contribution to
DEFENDANTS' 25-year celebration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">5. PLAINTIFF began billing the
project weekly beginning for the period March 4 – 10,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2013, planning to continue billing
through the week following the Festival (until August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">17) to wrap up all reporting and
other business, and thereafter as additional funding<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">became available over the three-year
life of the Project.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">6. The cornerstone of PLAINTIFF'S
and DEFENDANTS' plan was built around a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">succession of three exhibits on loan
from the National Museum of the American<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Indian, Smithsonian Institution,
namely:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A. In 2013: </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible: African-Native American lives in the </span></i><st1:country-region><st1:place><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Americas</span></i></st1:place></st1:country-region><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">B. In 2014: </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Skateboard Culture in Indian Country<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">C. In 2015: </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Up Where We Belong</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, or a similar exhibit including Jim Pepper's<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">saxophone, which is in the permanent
collection of the Smithsonian Institution,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Museum of the American Indian.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">7. The business plan for the event
was to draw an audience to </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Parkrose</span></st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">High School</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">with free admission to the
Smithsonian exhibit, which would be augmented with free<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">performances by Native American
musicians, plus Native American arts and crafts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and foods for sale during daytime
hours, and thereby to sell tickets to the evening<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">performances in the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Parkrose</span></st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">High School</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> theater.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">8. PLAINTIFF made contact with Mr.
Robert Alexander of the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">National</span></st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Museum</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">American Indian regarding the loan
of </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible: African-Native
American lives in the<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Americas </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">for exhibition in Portland, and—working with DEFENDANTS—successfully<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">negotiated an agreement whereby said
exhibit would be lent to DEFENDANTS for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibition at Parkrose High School
for free public viewing from August 7, 2013 to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:date day="10" month="8" year="2015"><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">August 10, 2015</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">9. DEFENDANTS contracted with the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">National</span></st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Museum</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> of the American Indian,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">promising to take every step
necessary to fulfill the agreement, including providing an<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">insurance rider covering said
exhibit during the four days it would be at Parkrose High<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">School, which would be the sole cost
of the exhibit, all other shipping and handling<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">costs to be borne by the
Smithsonian.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">10. PLAINTIFF sought out another
exhibition location so that </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible
</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">could remain<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">in Portland longer than the four
days at Parkrose and to this purpose contacted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Portland Community College Cascade
Campus President Dr. Algie Gatewood, to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">make Dr. Gatewood aware of the
opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">11. With Dr. Gatewood's leadership
and support, PLAINTIFF brought </span><st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PCC</span></st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Cascade<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">into contact with Mr. Robert
Alexander of the Smithsonian, who was in charge of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibit, and arrangements were made
for </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to move from Parkrose High<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">School after the Festival into
storage at </span><st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PCC</span></st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Cascade, where it would remain until it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">came up for exhibition at the
Cascade campus library beginning on October 10, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">continuing to the end of the year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">12. PLAINTIFF planned to organize
and schedule additional Jim Pepper Native Arts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Festival events in the neighborhood
of </span><st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PCC</span></st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Cascade through the end of the year, in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">association with the </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibit
and continuing to celebrate DEFENDANTS'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">alleged 25-year history of
successfully producing cultural events across the state of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Oregon, while making plans in
concert with the National Museum of the American<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Indian for future exhibits in 2014
and 2015 per the aforementioned project plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">13. DEFENDANTS, however, did NOT
provide the insurance rider as required in the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">loan contract, thus canceling the exhibit, without informing
any of either the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Parkrose School District, which had
contracted with DEFENDANTS for the rental of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">secured space, or the Museum, which
continued to plan for the Festival exhibition's<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">arrival, including flying three
Smithsonian personnel to Portland to staff the exhibit and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">conduct outreach in the Portland
Metro Area, or PLAINTIFF, who continued to rely on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS' representations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">14. The failure of the </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibit
to arrive forced the cancellation of the entire<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">daytime program, causing all of the
artists, musicians and vendors to suffer financial<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">loss and great inconvenience, and
created lingering resentment and anger in the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">community directed at PLAINTIFF and
the Project itself, all of which could have been<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">avoided had DEFENDANTS either
provided the insurance rider as agreed to in</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS' contract with the
Smithsonian Institution, or notified either PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">or the Museum staff or the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Parkrose</span></st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">School District</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> of its intention to cancel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">15. The unanticipated failure of the
</span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibit to arrive forced the cancellation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">of the entire Festival daytime
program, removing entirely the free attractions that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">would have created opportunities to
sell tickets to the evening performances, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">destroying the entire business plan
and several months of PLAINTIFF'S work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">16. Four days prior to the Festival,
on </span><st1:date day="3" month="8" year="2013"><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Saturday,
August 3, 2013</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, DEFENDANT MR.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DAVID MILHOLLAND personally designed
a poster advertising the </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible
</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">as “Free to All”, and proclaiming “The
Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival is a project of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the Oregon Cultural Heritage
Commission 501(c)(3) celebrating its 25</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; font-size: 7.0pt;">th </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">year and a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">1000 Nations production.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">17. On </span><st1:date day="3" month="8" year="2013"><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Saturday, August 3, 2013</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, DEFENDANT MR. DAVID MILHOLLAND provided<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">said poster in electronic format to
PLAINTIFF expressly for the creation of printed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">posters, social media postings and
other electronic media, which PLAINTIFF took in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">good faith to be truthful statements
and acted accordingly. This was the final edition<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">of several posters advertising the </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibit
PLAINTIFF produced over the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">preceding two months.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">18. The last communication that
PLAINTIFF received from the Museum was an email<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to DEFENDANTS stating that the </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibit
would arrive at Parkrose High<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">School on either </span><st1:date day="5" month="8" year="2013"><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Monday, August
5, 2013</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> or Tuesday, August 6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">19. The last email communication
from DEFENDANTS to the Smithsonian that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF received, dated </span><st1:date day="24" month="7" year="2013"><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">July 24, 2013</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, stated:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">From: David Milholland (</span><st1:personname><span style="color: #000081; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">encanto@ochcom.org</span></st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">To: Alexander, Robert<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Cc: Cruz, Sean Aaron<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Subject: Signed IndiVisible
agreement in the mail<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Hello Robert...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I mailed the full signed contract to
Katherine Lewis this pm. It should arrive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">promptly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Attached is the signature panel, for
your reference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Will call to talk with you
tomorrow...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Cheers...David<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">19. As part of the Jim Pepper Native
Arts Festival contract between DEFENDANTS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and the </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Parkrose</span></st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">School District</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, a secure room was rented, cleared and otherwise<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">prepared to house </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">,
including furniture for the Museum personnel who<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">would staff the exhibit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">20. PLAINTIFF was not concerned when
the exhibit did not arrive on Monday, August<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">5, but—understanding the
significance of the </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible
</span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibit to the overall success<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">of the entire project, Festival and
DEFENDANTS' 25-year celebration alike—was very<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">much concerned when the exhibit did
not arrive on Tuesday, August 6, either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">21. Vendors and performers began to
arrive at </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Parkrose</span></st1:placename><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">High
School</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> and set
up on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the morning of Wednesday, September
7, but there was no Smithsonian exhibit and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the contact number PLAINTIFF had
been calling since the day before only went to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">voice mail.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">22. On Wednesday morning, September
7, PLAINTIFF asked DEFENDANT OCHC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">President David Milholland where he
thought the exhibit was, and Mr. Milholland<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">replied, “It will either be here or
it won't.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">23. DEFENDANT OCHC President David
Milholland made no attempt to locate the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibit whatsoever, and spent the
morning taping several dozen 8 1/2” x 11” paper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">signs to doors and windows around
the high school building that he had apparently<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">created on his home computer the
night before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">24. PLAINTIFF learned of the status
of the </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibit in late morning on<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Wednesday, August 7, 2013, from one
of the Festival volunteers, who had seen the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Smithsonian team at NAYA, the Native
American Youth and Family Center, earlier in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the day and heard that the exhibit
was still in </span><st1:place><st1:city><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Washington</span></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, </span><st1:state><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">D.C.</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">25. The absence of the </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">IndiVisible </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibit
destroyed months of work performed in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">good faith by PLAINTIFF, including
the plans to move the exhibit to </span><st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PCC</span></st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Cascade
for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exhibition beginning October 10.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">26. PLAINTIFF had scheduled two
evening showings of </span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansoblique"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansOblique; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Pepper's
Powwow, </span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">an hourlong<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">award-winning documentary of Jim
Pepper's life by Sandy Osawa, for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">September 7 and 8, which was in all
of the project advertising.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">27. Some minutes before the
September program was to start, however, PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">approached DEFENDANT Mr. David
Milholland, and asked point blank if<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANT had sent payment to film
maker Sandy Osawa for the public viewing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">rights, and DEFENDANT responded “No.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">28. PLAINTIFF was forced to
immediately cancel both scheduled showings of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">documentary, and the evening
performances were now in disarray.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: freesans;">29. Following the September 7
evening performances, DEFENDANT OCHC</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">President David Milholland claimed
that he did not bring enough checks to pay all of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the performers, forcing PLAINTIFF to
pay one group out of his own pocket, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Luciana Proaño, one of the
performers, paid one of the other performers out of her<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">own pocket.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">30. During the rest of the festival
and thereafter, it was never clear to PLAINTIFF who<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">among the several performers and
contractors DEFENDANT OCHC President David<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Milholland was going to pay, nor how
much he was going to pay, nor whether he was<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">going to pay with a check or in
blank, signed OCHC tax receipts or in some other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">manner.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">31. DEFENDANTS The Oregon Cultural
Heritage Commission (OCHC) is an Oregon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">nonprofit with no public charge or
official status, whose membership has been all-<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">White throughout its entire 25-plus
years of existence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">32. DEFENDANTS have failed to file a
physical address with the Oregon Secretary of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">State for at least the past four
years, and recently filed a physical address only after<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF complained to the
Corporation Division of the Oregon Secretary of State.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">33. DEFENDANTS The Oregon Cultural
Heritage Commission (OCHC) maintains no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">regular place of business or hours
or days of business, has no apparent staff, no listed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">or posted phone number and no
physical address, all contributing factors to problems<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and difficulties PLAINTIFF
encountered at all times in attempting to carry out the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Agreement in good faith.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">34. As DEFENDANT President David
Milholland rarely responded to emails<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">throughout the entire history of the
project, the only means of contact PLAINTIFF had<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">for DEFENDANTS The Oregon Cultural
Heritage Commission was Mr. Milholland's<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">home phone number, a land line.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">35. Mr. David Grafe, a disgruntled
sound engineer whose bid for the project was not<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">accepted, and his company </span><st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PDX</span></st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Audio,
beginning on our about August 5, 2013,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">mounted a malicious, false and
defamatory campaign determined to wreck both the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival and
PLAINTIFF'S career that was greatly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">exacerbated by DEFENDANTS'
inaccessibility throughout the entire ordeal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">36. Mr. Grafe and </span><st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PDX</span></st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Audio
contacted and communicated false and defamatory<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">assertions to Festival sponsors,
partners, performers, ticket buyers and parties in the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:city><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Portland</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> music industry and elsewhere broadly, that did in fact
do great harm to both<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF and the Festival, and that
has continued to the present day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: freesans;">37. DEFENDANTS paid some of the
festival performers in the form of DEFENDANTS'</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">checks and others in the form of
blank tax deduction receipts signed in advance and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">distributed by Mr. Milholland, which
may be an illegal abuse of DEFENDANTS' 501c3<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">status, and other performers and
contractors were not paid at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">38. Immediately following the
festival, DEFENDANTS became impossible to contact,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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PLAINTIFF'S telephone calls or to respond to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF'S emails, and the fact
that DEFENDANTS maintain no regular place, days<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">or hours of business made it
impossible for PLAINTIFF to proceed with the tasks that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">were ordinarily routine in the
aftermath of similar festival events as well as those that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">were necessitated by DEFENDANTS'
grossly negligent and/or fraudulent actions<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">before and during the course of the
festival, and continuing thereafter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">39. In order to force contact with
DEFENDANTS, since DEFENDANTS maintain no<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">regular place, hours or days of
business, PLAINTIFF resorted to searching out<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">through the Secretary of State
Corporation Division to locate the only physical address<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">in the DEFENDANTS' filings, that for
Mr. Walt Curtis, DEFENDANT'S board<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">secretary, and PLAINTIFF staked out
the location until PLAINTIFF was able to make<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">contact with Mr. Curtis on </span><st1:date day="5" month="9" year="2013"><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">September 5,
2013</span></st1:date><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">40. DEFENDANTS failed to provide
full, truthful, timely or accurate fiscal reports to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">sponsors, partners, grantors, the
project Steering Committee or to PLAINTIFF in the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">weeks and months following the
Festival.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">41. PLAINTIFF requested help in
developing an accurate accounting of the project<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">from </span><st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jo Ann Hardesty</span></st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> of Consult Hardesty, an independent consulting firm, who<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">organized two facilitated debriefing
sessions with DEFENDANTS President David<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Milholland and the project Steering
Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">42. Both facilitated debriefing
sessions were held at the Rosewood Commons in SE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Portland, and were attended by
DEFENDANTS President David Milholland and the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">project Steering Committee. DEFENDANTS
President David Milholland was unable<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to produce an accurate fiscal
report, or to explain the reports that he had provided at<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">either meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">43. DEFENDANTS President David
Milholland promised to return for a third time with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">an accurate fiscal report in early
January, 2014, but was never heard from again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">44. In March, 2014, the project
Steering Committee formed a Board of Directors and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">registered with the Secretary of
State as the Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival, an<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Oregon public benefit nonprofit
corporation, dedicated to improving access to music<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">education.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">45. Immediately upon incorporating,
the Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival board of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">directors fired DEFENDANTS President
David Milholland and severed all ties with the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Oregon</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Cultural Heritage Commission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansbold"; font-size: 14.0pt;">PETITION
FOR RELIEF<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS' actions, whether
deliberate or as a result of DEFENDANTS' gross<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">negligence, have caused great harm
to PLAINTIFF, to PLAINTIFF'S company 1000<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Nations, and to the Jim Pepper
Native Arts Festival, a new Oregon public benefit<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">nonprofit corporation, including:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A. Damage to all three
reputations and loss of standing in the community;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">B. The loss of sponsors and
other partners that had been part of the 2013 event<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">but have not come back after
experiencing DEFENDANTS' gross negligence,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">failure to provide timely and/or
accurate fiscal reports to sponsors and general<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">incompetency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">C. The loss of many
hundreds of hours of work that PLAINTIFF had invested in<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">pulling sponsors and partners
together for the 2013 event, and the subsequent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">necessity to invest hundreds of
hours of additional work throughout 2013, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and to the present day to bring them
back in as well as attract new sponsors and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">partners to the project, now in its
3</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; font-size: 7.0pt;">rd </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">year.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">D. Emotional distress that
plunged PLAINTIFF into a period of depression that<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">required more than a year of
treatment in order to be able to function normally<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">again and that requires ongoing
treatment for depression and PTSD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">E. Unpaid compensation in
the amount of $ 9,934.00 for work PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">performed on behalf of DEFENDANTS at
PLAINTIFF'S reduced rate of $ 400.00<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">per week prior to and during the
Festival week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansbold"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansBold; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DECLARATORY RELIEF<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF seeks declaratory relief
in that the Court determines that the 2013 Jim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Pepper Native Arts Festival was IN </span><st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">FACT</span></st1:stockticker><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> a
project in the sole custody and control of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS the Oregon Cultural
Heritage Commission (OCHC) and its President<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">David Milholland, and that neither
myself nor my company 1000 Nations had<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: freesans;">contractual or fiscal authority, and
that any and all complaints any third parties may</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">have had or may have in the future
regarding the management or responsibility of the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">2013 Jim Pepper Native Arts Festival
be properly directed to DEFENDANTS OCHC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and Mr. Milholland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansbold"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansBold; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">EQUITABLE RELIEF<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF seeks equitable relief and
hereby petitions the Court to order<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS to provide:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A. DEFENDANTS' written and
published apologies to PLAINTIFF, said<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">apologies taking full responsibility
for the dispute existing between PLAINTIFF<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and DEFENDANTS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">B. That DEFENDANTS be
ordered to transmit said apologies and a true<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">statement of facts regarding the
matters in dispute by every means<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS have used to defame
PLAINTIFF or PLAINTIFF's business<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">activities in the past and at the
present time, including Facebook and other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">social or electronic media.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansbold"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansBold; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">COMPENSATORY
DAMAGES<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF seeks compensatory damages
in the amount of:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A. The sum of $ 9,934.00 in
unpaid compensation at PLAINTIFF'S reduced rate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">of $ 400.00 per week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">B. $ 50,000.00 for lost
income, lost clients and other lost economic opportunities<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">suffered due to DEFENDANTS' gross
negligence and/or deliberate wrongful<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">conduct, plus such other and further
relief as this court may deem just and proper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">C. $ 5,000.00 for past,
present and future medical expenses PLAINTIFF has<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">incurred or is likely to incur as a
result of DEFENDANTS' conduct plus such other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and further relief as this court may
deem just and proper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">D. A letter documenting
PLAINTIFF'S 2013 in-kind charitable contribution to<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DEFENDANTS' 25-year celebration and
the project valued at $ 13,200<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(calculated at 36 weeks of work at $
400.00/week).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansbold"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansBold; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PUNITIVE DAMAGES<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF seeks punitive damages in
the amount of $ 150,000.00 plus such other<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and further relief as this court may
deem just and proper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansbold"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansBold; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PAIN </span></b><st1:stockticker><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansbold"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansBold; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">AND</span></b></st1:stockticker><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansbold"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansBold; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> SUFFERING<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF seeks compensation for
loss of reputation, emotional distress, mental<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">anguish, loss of enjoyment of life
and anxiety PLAINTIFF has suffered as a direct<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">consequence of DEFENDANTS' actions
in the amount of $ 250,000.00 plus such<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">other and further relief as this
court may deem just and proper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: "freesansbold"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSansBold; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">ATTORNEYS' FEES and
COURT COSTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF petitions the Court for an
award of Attorney's fees and other court costs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "freesans"; mso-bidi-font-family: FreeSans; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PLAINTIFF has occurred in bringing
this Complaint.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "liberationserif"; mso-bidi-font-family: LiberationSerif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">DATED this ______ day of
_________________________, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "liberationserif"; mso-bidi-font-family: LiberationSerif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I declare under penalty of
perjury that the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "liberationserif"; mso-bidi-font-family: LiberationSerif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">foregoing is true and
correct.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "liberationserif"; font-size: 9.0pt;">_____________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 9.0pt;">(signature)<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: LiberationSerif-Bold; mso-bidi-font-family: LiberationSerif-Bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">SEAN
AARON CRUZ<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: LiberationSerif-Bold; mso-bidi-font-family: LiberationSerif-Bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">10809
NE FREMONT STREET<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: LiberationSerif-Bold; mso-bidi-font-family: LiberationSerif-Bold; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">PORTLAND,
OREGON 97220<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">By Sean Aaron Cruz<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">American home-grown
religious extremism isn’t always about Muslims and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">jihad</i>, and the violence the extremists inflict on their victims
does not always involve bombs, bullets or bloody knives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What they do have in common
is a slavish belief that they are answering to a call higher than what either
civil or moral authority allows, utterly beyond mortal law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">They share this core
conviction that they are doing what The Man Upstairs (aka God, Allah, Joseph
Smith, and by other names) wants them to do. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And there is nothing quite
so satisfying as getting over on someone who has insulted one’s Big Religious
Deal and whom one doesn’t like personally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">My baby girl Allie (Alexis) Cruz made these five drawings one
day in August 1995, when she was 7 years old and just 6 months before she
disappeared into </span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">Utah</span></span></st1:place></st1:state><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;"> in a
Mormon shunning/kidnapping along with my other children: Natalia, Tyler and
Aaron.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">I found them just this morning in a box that I haven't opened in
a long, long time. </span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;"><o:p> My mom and I would often watch Allie draw and color and create
actual stories while we talked at the kitchen table in my three-generational
household. All we had to do was supply the paper and assorted supplies, and
Allie would sing and tell us her stories while she worked, often for hours at a
stretch.</o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">Each of these images corresponds to the story she wound out for
my mom and I, inventing characters and conversations, talking and singing all
the while she colored and drew, and she made these five pictures in a single sitting.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">Allie especially loved to draw horsies, and her scenes and
stories were always clever and lively, full of sunshine and happiness, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and more horsies….<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">Our home was our castle, and it was a place where she and her
horsies were safe, while the dramas surrounding her mother’s marriages and
divorces took place….<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">Allie began exhibiting this talent, this creative impulse that
had to be expressed, when she was four, and I have those drawings also, to be
published on another day, but this is her book of five pictures, made on our
kitchen table that day in August, just about twenty years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">While my mom and I were watching Allie make these very drawings,
Mormons in three states were planning the abduction, intent on separating my
children from me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">I had told them, these members of the Battle Ground and La
Center, Washington LDS wards, years before, that I wanted their church
influence out of my family, and that I did not like what they were teaching my
children. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">But my ex wanted to put these Mormons in charge of educating our
children, and they were determined to take them and keep them forever, hidden
in </span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">Utah</span></span></st1:place></st1:state><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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(they all carry that persecution complex), and maybe I had, you be the judge. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">I had told them that they were like the Borg, if the Borg were
all white and ignorant; that the Book of Mormon was full of nonsense; that
their baptism for the dead rituals was just so much busy work; that there never
were any golden plates, and I’m pretty sure that we disagreed over some other
fine points of doctrine and plain common sense, especially that Kory Wright
character in Vancouver, who was the architect of the kidnapping, using his
leadership position in all three states. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">He’s a Big Deal in the Mormon Church, an executive with a Mormon
debt collection company, Columbia Ultimate, based in Vancouver, Washington, with lots of Big Church Embarrassment
potential.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">So there was Kory and Chris Wright, the principle Mormon<i> jihadists</i>, and in Battle Ground there was also Connie and Barry Dunford and the Mormon bishop Donald Taylor. <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">The group of Mormons organizing the kidnapping/shunning came to include
church leaders in </span></span><st1:place><st1:city><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">Hillsboro</span></span></st1:city><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><st1:state><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">Oregon</span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">, also,
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">So they made their own plans for my children, while Allie made
these drawings for my mom and I, and my other kids played out in the yard. I was my mom’s sole
caregiver at the time. She had been medically fragile for many years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">Once my children were sequestered in Utah, being moved from
place to place, Mormon households and motel rooms, the drawing ended, as did
every other part of normal life for all of us, my children, my mom and myself.
Allie’s creative spark was snuffed out, Aaron fell into suicidal despondency. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">The Mormon Wall went up, my kids hidden behind deserts and
mountains, the Wall protecting all of those involved in the abduction from
public scrutiny and legal consequences. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">My mom died four years later without seeing or hearing from her
grandchildren again, and my son Aaron is dead, all in their service to the LDS <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">White Man in Charge</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God‘s favorite hangout and Number One
Confidant lives in </span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">Salt
Lake City</span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">, you see.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">A cheap price to pay, in the eyes of a religious extremist.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">Now, twenty years later, I can photograph the life we had
together, expressed in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Allie’s drawings
and stories in high-definition color and post them on the web, and there is
nothing the Mormons who kidnapped my children can do about it. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Arial;">I will be my children’s father forever, and I want to make that
clear to everyone who had a piece of this action. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Kyron Horman kidnapping
is at the five-year mark, and the investigation is still stalled behind Kyron's
step mom's unwillingness to account for her whereabouts for a critical couple
of hours that day, and law enforcement’s inability (so far) to fill in the gap
with hard evidence. Kyron’s step mom Terri Horman continues to stick to her non-story.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>The pain she first felt five years ago when her son Kyron disappeared hasn't softened. If anything, her emotions are more ragged today, she said. Tears flow often. The gnawing hole inside hasn't filled, not even a little.</i><br />
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<i>"It doesn't get easier with time," Young said. "I still wake up crying and praying, hoping today will be the day."</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">That was in February, 2001,
and marks when I first drove to the Oregon state Capitol, where I met Senator
Avel Louise Gordly and told her what had happened/was happening to my family,
how both the family law and criminal law systems had failed to protect my
children despite an order for joint custody that had protected my family for
five years at the time the kidnapping began.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to Senate Bill 1041 (2005) and House Bills 2601 and 2603 (2015) began.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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done on the issue of non-stranger abductions here in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oregon</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">. Expect more legislation in the future, including:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Emotional abuse</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">. The current Custodial Interference I and II statutes are triggered if
there is physical abuse, but there is no reference to the emotional abuse that
abducted children suffer. The Parental and Family Abduction Task Force
concluded that children abducted by any person suffer emotional harm as severe
as any other form of child abuse. </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oregon</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;"> became a mental health parity state in the 2009 legislative
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definition of domestic violence. They are crimes committed against the parent
from whom the child has been abducted as well as against the child victim.
Threatening to abduct a child should be treated in statute as any other threat
of harm made under domestic circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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generally that the traumas of crimes fade away with time, and maybe they do,
but not before the crime comes to an end. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
crime against a child cannot end simply because the child “ages out” of the
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kidnapped child becomes “more” kidnapped as time goes on, and the
age-progressed images of Kyron Horman ought to drive that point home to
everyone listening. The House and Senate Judiciary Committees should take this
issue on in reframing the Custodial Interference I and II statutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who engages in taking, keeping or enticing a child in violation of the
Custodial Interference I or II statutes must be held accountable, not merely the
parent. The statutes are clear. The issue is enforcement. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Law enforcement could have
wrapped up the abduction of the Cruz children in short order if they had included
the dozen or so adults who participated in planning and executing the
kidnapping. The </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial;">Washington</span></st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="font-family: Arial;">County</span></st1:placetype><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><st1:placename><span style="font-family: Arial;">D.A.</span></st1:placename></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">’s office was aware of the group, which included
Mormon officials in three states, but made a decision not to prosecute them.
This decision could have been influenced by Mormon church members, as the
church is very powerful in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oregon</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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current law the person(s) must intend to keep the child “permanently or for a
protracted period of time.” Yet there is no definition of “protracted”. No one
knows how long that is. It is a completely subjective measure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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requiring local law enforcement to notify the Oregon State Police within 24
hours of having probable cause to believe that a violation of Kidnapping I or
II or Custodial Interference I or II has taken place, has more than one
purpose: to urge the law enforcement and legal systems to take the issue of
time more seriously, and spur the legislature to formulate and enact a
definition of “protracted.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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believe his personal experience has given him the wisdom and the moral
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–Hon. Judge James L. Fun, </span><st1:place><st1:placename><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">Washington</span></st1:placename><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"> </span><st1:placetype><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">County</span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"> Circuit Court, </span><st1:date day="24" month="1" year="2007"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">January
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is the second of two
2015 child abduction bills that stem from Senator </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Avel Gordly</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">’s landmark <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SB
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">HB 2603</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">,
naming ORS 30.868 “Aaron’s Law” for my late son Aaron Cruz, has already passed
the House on a unanimous 59-0 vote, and is in Senate Judiciary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">HB 2601 </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">requires
local law enforcement to notify the Oregon State Police within 24 hours of
having probable cause to believe that a violation of either Kidnapping I or II,
or Custodial Interference I or II has taken place (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>is</u> taking place</i>).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that local law enforcement saw no barriers to complying with the requirement
and that it treats all kidnappings alike, regardless of who the abductor(s)
is(are).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The 24-hour notice
requirement for probable cause of a child abduction should effectively remove
the barrier to law enforcement response that the lack of a definition of the
word “protracted” in the ORS creates.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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enforcement won’t have to parse the definition of “protracted” anymore. That
will be up to the courts to decide. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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2005, there were only the criminal and family law paths, and among them no
common definition, no measurement of time that defines “protracted”. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now, with ORS 30.868 on the
books—and knowing that every precious second that your child is in the hands of
his or her kidnapper and away from you is time destroyed forever—there will be
an opportunity for kidnapping victims to measure time in civil court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I am grateful for the work of
Kevin Campbell and Craig Campbell of Victory Group and the Oregon Association of
Chiefs of Police as well as the Oregon State Police for their support and for dialing
in the language in the amendment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Oregon House voted to name ORS 30.868 "Aaron's Law", I saw former Governor
Ted Kulongoski in the corridor, and he graciously signed this photo of himself
signing Senate Bill 1041 into law ten years ago. SB 1041 was sponsored by
Senator </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3b5998;">Avel Louise Gordly</span></span><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">, standing beside the
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during the 2005 regular session, the Seventy-third Legislative Assembly passed
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Oregon Laws 2005, and was codified as ORS 30.868; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Senate Bill 1041 is the culmination of the work of the 2004 Interim Task Force
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11, 1996. The Pacific NW dealing with the Great Storm of 1996, I-5 closed at
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">She drew the "You will shine for ME! Every day!" for me and my mom a few months before she vanished. Her drawing kept me alive more t</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">imes than I can count over the years. When hope of seeing her and her siblings ever again faded, I promised her drawing that I would shine for her, every day, never giving up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">UPDATE: HB
2603, officially naming Senate Bill 1041, "Aaron's Law", after my son Aaron Cruz will be heard before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, February
7, 2015, ten years after the passage of Senate Bill 1041, and 19 years after
Aaron and his brother and two sisters disappeared from Oregon in an
abduction/shunning organized and maintained by Mormons in three states: Oregon,
Washington and Utah. Aaron died from “undetermined causes” in Payson, Utah.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">78th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2015 Regular Session<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Provides
that ORS 30.868, regarding civil damages for custodial interference, shall be
known and may be cited as “Aaron’s Law.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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to citation of ORS 30.868.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whereas
during the 2005 regular session, the Seventy-third Legislative Assembly passed
Senate Bill 1041, sponsored by Senator Avel Gordly, which became chapter 841,
Oregon Laws 2005, and was codified as ORS 30.868; and<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whereas
with the enactment of Senate Bill 1041, Oregon became the first state in the
nation where abducting a child creates a civil cause of action; and<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whereas
Senate Bill 1041 is the culmination of the work of the 2004 Interim Task Force
on Parental and Family Abductions and of Senator Gordly’s chief of staff, Sean
Aaron Cruz; and<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Sean Aaron Cruz’s own four children disappeared from Oregon in 1996; and<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whereas
Sean Aaron Cruz’s eldest son, Aaron Cruz, died in Utah in April 2005 as a
consequence of the abduction, inspiring the Legislative Assembly to act on
Senate Bill 1041; and<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whereas
Senate Bill 1041 passed 26-3 in the Senate and 59-0 in the House of
Representatives and was signed into law by Governor Theodore R. Kulongoski on
September 2, 2005; and<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whereas
Senate Bill 1041 is referred to as “Aaron’s Law” by members of the legal
community, including presenters at the State Family Law Advisory Committee’s
Family Law Conference; and<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whereas
designating Senate Bill 1041 as “Aaron’s Law” is a fitting tribute to the
memory of Aaron Cruz, whose death was not in vain; now, therefore,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Last Christmas Eve – Deeper than the
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video is a home movie, documenting that the Cruz family existed: Grandmother
Cruz, single dad Sean Cruz, and his four children. But Mormon zealots had other
plans, and the children disappeared into Utah just six weeks later. The story
of the abduction and the legislation that resulted begins here....<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Aaron Cruz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">March
21, 2014 (Aaron’s birthday)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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photo of my late son Aaron has always had a special hold on me. Every time I
look at it, ever since I took this photo, the word “trust” comes to my mind,
and I think about how this beautiful boy had every reason in the world to trust
those around him, family and friends, and the people his parents allowed into
his life. He is looking at me. I am looking at him. He is looking back at me.
We are One Together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Aaron
had every reason to believe that his future and those of his brother and two
sisters were secure; secure in the sense that love in our family was unconditional
and permanent (“I love you to infinity”, we often said to each other). He knew
he was loved, that he was a priority in his parents’ lives, as were each of his
siblings, and in this love was the foundation of his confidence, the trust so
clear in his eyes. He is looking at me. I am looking at him. He is looking back
at me. We are One Together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">There
came a time, however, when his parent’s priorities changed, after his mother
became involved in Mormonism, like falling into a deep chasm full of crazy-ass
ideas, which led to the breakup of his family, and now there were a different
sort of people allowed into his life, True Believers with smiling faces and religious
agendas, home-baked cookies and Books of Mormon, people with status and
impressive church titles in his mother’s new world, and the foundation he had
grown up on had changed, had vanished utterly; <i>love was now conditional</i>….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> I never got on with his mother’s new Mormon
friends, not while we were still married, and never after. They looked at me
and the word “Mexican” would explode in their brains, along with all their
stereotypical imagery. You could see it in their eyes, their demeanor, their
assumptions. I had seen that look many times before, growing up in California,
where one’s Mexican-ness was always an issue one way or another, and these
Mormons didn’t like race-mixing much either, so the term “half-breed” was
knocking around in their heads also when they looked at me. There was that part
of it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Mormons now intruding into our family saw me as a threat to the whiteness with which
they were now enveloping my children, and in my personal religious views (more
agnostic than anything else) they saw a cause for direct action. They were
fighting a religious war personally directed by God Himself (to Whom they had Exclusive
Direct Access right there in Salt Lake City) against people who don’t see things
the same way. Seriously crazy, bug-eyed religious fervor, a group of people
bent enough to plot the disappearance of four children on a school day and to
conceal them in the mountains east of Ogden, Utah. Mormons with titles: Bishop,
Counselor, Relief Society President were now speaking directly to my children,
from their positions of “trust”, reeking with conditional love….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First
came a press of Mormon “counselors” who put a lot of hours into trying to
convince me to get with their program, and after that campaign failed, after I
rejected their last arguments, the same group of ideologues convinced my
children’s mother to file for divorce, provided a top Mormon lawyer, and a 15-year
marriage came to an end in a matter of weeks, our family itself now conditional….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My
ex’s Mormon friends decided to separate my children from me as a punishment, a
consequence of my “apostasy”, although I had never believed the LDS dogma, had
agreed to join their church only because I had made a deal with my wife, made
after years of fruitlessly attempting to persuade her to stop smoking while she
equally without success pressured me to join up (“You quit smoking, I’ll join
your church,” I had finally said). This was/is by far the worst deal I ever
made in my life, this one here, and if only I had simply gone back on my word,
things would have turned out differently. The point is, leaving the LDS church
can have negative consequences….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Aaron
and his siblings vanished from Oregon on February 12, 1996, now isolated in
remote Mormon enclaves, breaking our physical connections, and the Mormons now
in control of their lives worked hard to destroy every emotional connection my
children and I had shared. It was a deliberate, structured campaign that included
introducing Aaron to Prozac, Ritalin, Zoloft, a long list of other such drugs,
and Oxycontin, the gateway to the Mormon-infused opiate addiction that wrecked
his chances of success in high school and gave these Mormons an excuse to blame
him for his troubles, for not fitting in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Within
a year of arriving in his Utah concealment, Aaron’s despair was so intense that
he began cutting himself with a knife. Years later, I saw the scars as he lay
there on his Utah deathbed, long, overlapping, crisscrossing scars on both his
upper arms. I had no idea a knife’s sharp edge could make a scar so wide, these
marks of conditional love laid out on my beautiful son, scars on top of scars, each
a remnant of the Big Bang in his shrunken universe, where Trust had become a
distant, red-shifted blur, falling away hopelessly into amorphous gas and dust….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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siblings succumbed to the pressure, joined up with his mother’s church, became
fully immersed in Mormonism, made friends of their own, fell in and out of love
with other Mormons, and this is where they remain today, surrounded by Mormons
infused with all of the conditional love the Mormon Universe has to offer, love
that would be withdrawn in a heartbeat should they ever reach out to me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
have boxes of photographs of my children, of Aaron, of Natalia, of Tyler, of
Allie, with that same look of Trust and Unconditional Love in their eyes. They
are looking at me. I am looking at them. They are looking back at me, and we
are One Together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is nothing the Mormons can do to change that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30929496.post-30623306390997707622013-11-23T18:45:00.000-08:002013-11-23T19:31:09.668-08:0012 Years a Slave - 18 Years a Kidnapping<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
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Oregon—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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movie <i>12 Years a Slave</i> shocked me a
bunch, but not for the reasons one might expect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shocked me the most was not the bloody, detailed depiction of the barbarism and
cruelty of America’s Slave Era, because those facts are all well known, but in
the more subtle reaches: the forced separation of families, the scenes of Scripture-quoting
monsters in everyday life justifying their crimes against humanity, and in the other
parallels and contrasts I could see between Solomon Northrup’s experiences and
my own as the father of four kidnapped children whose abduction began some 18
years ago and continues beyond today, and in the attitudes we both encountered
along the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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me personally, Solomon Northrup’s story was more about the present than it was
about the past, more about the pain of indifference than about the pain of the
lash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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went into the theater thinking about the horrors of slavery, but early on the movie
put me on a different course of thought: knowing first the suffering that lay
ahead for the Northrup family, the father losing his wife and children, and the
children suffering the sudden, mysterious loss of their father, and then during
the slave market scene, in the attitudes the slave Patsy encountered when she was
sold separately from her two children, never to see them again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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children and I were abruptly parted on February 12, 1996, when they disappeared
from Oregon in a kidnapping/shunning organized by Mormon church members in
Oregon, Washington and Utah, an abduction also intended to last forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mom never saw her grandchildren again, died four years into the kidnapping, an
extension of the shunning, how they disappeared from Grandma’s life, Mormons in
control, the indifference I encountered….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Three
different forms of abduction between us, I was thinking, sharing much in
common: Each was organized. There was planning and logistics and a larger social
structure that supported the crimes. Beyond their reckless disregard for life
and liberty, there was the kidnappers’ desire to do actual harm to a person
they did not personally know. The kidnappers’ actions resulted from their
respective religion- or race-based hatreds, and with which they intruded into
their victims’ lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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first thought was that I would rather have been kidnapped into slavery than for
my children to be the kidnappees, that I would be beaten and chained in a box
if it meant my children would remain safe in their home, and that at least
Solomon Northrup knew that no one was tricking and tormenting his children
during the captivity, deliberately destroying every emotional as well as
physical link between them and forcing his children into complicity in the
kidnapping. And none of his children died during the course of his ordeal. It
could be worse, I thought, than this. I would take those beatings, and 12 years
of separation is much better than 18.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In
the slave market scene, a slave trader told Patsey in not so many words that
she would forget about these children sooner or later, so she ought to move on
and focus on her new life with the new master, and I found myself saying out
loud to no one in particular, “That’s what they expected me to do, too.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I
was referring to the attitudes I have encountered. People have been telling me
this ever since the beginning of the abduction, that I ought to “move on” or “accept
this”, in one way or another, and my children’s kidnappers were all of this
mind also, believing that they could get away with their crimes if I did move
on, and for so long as they could continue to maintain control over my children’s
lives, which they do even as adults.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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larger society was indifferent to all of these abductions as they were taking
place. Years went by before Solomon found a person willing to get out of his
comfort level and take an action that would lead to resolution and
reunification, if not justice. It was not wishing or hoping or praying or
pissing up a rope that brought the Northrup kidnapping to an end, but a person
taking action. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all of the 18 years of the Cruz kidnapping, I only encountered one such person,
a retired police officer named John Bissell, who saw the situation for what it
was and did everything he could to help. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I don’t believe that anyone in the movie’s audiences would expect Solomon to
ever do this, to move on or accept these injustices, a contrast between our
experiences that arises from people’s attitudes entirely, although we do know
that Solomon was in fact reunited with his children. No one knows, however, if
the Cruz abduction/shunning will ever come to an end, if the Mormons will ever
release my children to have contact with their father again, he who dared to
criticize LDS doctrine in his own home….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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dominate both of our stories. Sunday worshippers committed the crimes against
the Northrup and Cruz families, pious slavers and prayerful shunners, each reading
from their Good Books the lines that made fit their crimes. Woe be to those who
disagree with The Teachings that justify our respective Peculiar Institutions;
punishments of Biblical proportions resulting, they intone in their Psalm-singing
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years of painful separation, so far, 18 years a kidnapping, and a whole church
to keep it that way….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of <b>House Bill 2014</b>, sponsored by
State Representatives Alissa Keny-Guyer, Brent Barton, Chris Garrett, and Wayne
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has given him the wisdom and the moral authority necessary to make a real
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The definition of “protracted”</span></div>
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“…a substantial risk of illness or
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">II. Overview of
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Finding legal assistance in the wake of an abduction today<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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Senate Bill 1041 Aaron’s Law (2005)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> A. The 1996
abduction of Aaron Cruz and his siblings</span></div>
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Legislative history of Aaron’s Law</span></div>
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Reporting the crime to the Legislative Assembly</span></div>
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Take Root – Adults who were abducted as children speak</span></div>
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The 2004 Task Force on Parental and Family Abductions</span></div>
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Long-lasting trauma, injury and damage</span></div>
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<i>“Burning Issues in Access to Justice”</i></span></div>
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Aaron’s Law in statute: ORS 30.868</span></div>
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prevention and resolution of child abduction cases lie in the statutes
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Criminal Law systems interpret the language.</span></div>
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no legal right to do so, the person <span style="color: red;">takes, entices or
keeps</span> another person from the other person’s lawful custodian or in
violation of a valid joint custody order with intent to hold the other person <span style="color: red;">permanently</span> <span style="color: red;">or for a
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the other parent, family members or hangers-on, members of a church
congregation enforcing a shunning or any other organized group of persons
acting with criminal intent. In actual practice, however, when a parent is
involved in the abduction, law enforcement and the Family Law and Criminal Law
systems appear to follow a policy of ignoring the other persons who have
violated the statute. This highly selective enforcement of the Custodial
Interference statutes contributes to the incidence of child abductions. Since
it is so unlikely that nonparental persons will be held accountable for their
crimes, the statute has little deterrent value, hence the high incidence of
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in an understanding of how and why decisions to make exceptions to the statute
are made at the local level, providing the 2014 Legislative Assembly with the
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enforcement directive regarding when the threshold of “protracted” is reached
and the Custodial Interference statute is triggered. The dictionary definition
of “protracted” is “prolonged.” The absence of a clear definition of
“protracted” in statute makes it difficult for law enforcement to act, creating
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among local law enforcement jurisdictions across <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state>, providing the 2014 Legislative
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substantial risk of illness or physical injury.”</i></b> The real injuries a child victim
suffers in an abduction is not recognized in current statute. Although the
Legislative Assembly has adopted a policy of mental health parity in health
insurance coverage, it is not clear that parity applies to the “substantial
risk of illness” component of the custodial interference statutes, and the term
“physical injury” explicitly fails to recognize the mental and emotional trauma
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President’s Interim Task Force on Parental and Family Abductions reported: “…the
injury a child receives, when the child has been abducted by one of the child’s
parents, does not necessarily include physical injury. <i>The injury is more in the nature of mental trauma or mental injury. Nonetheless,
the injury is real and may be even more long lasting and damaging than physical
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expected to reveal a deficiency in how abductions are prioritized by law
enforcement and both the Family Law and Criminal Law systems. The report will
provide the 2014 Legislative Assembly with an opportunity to establish a clear
policy regarding the definition of “illness” and “injury” in respect to mental
health parity.</span></div>
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take into account the fact that abductions are “continuing” crimes. The trauma
and loss that victims suffer increases over time, yet law enforcement and both
the Family Law and Criminal Law systems routinely fail to treat these case as
crimes in progress, which is exactly what they are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Task Force, should provide the 2014 Legislative Assembly with a better
understanding of the Custodial Interference statutes and offer ideas to better
protect the interests of <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">II. Overview</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> <b>of access to
justice in Oregon<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For more than sixteen years, the Oregon Legislative Assembly
has considered the serious problem of public access to competent legal services
in the Family Law system:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“In a final report given to
the December, 1997 Legislative Assembly, the Oregon Task Force on Family Law
articulated <b><i>the continued unmet and acute demand for assistance dealing with pro se
litigants in the court systems</i></b>. At the request of the Task Force, the
Legislature created the Oregon Family Law Legal Services Commission. The charge
to this group was to evaluate and report on “how courthouse facilitation and
unbundled legal services might enhance the delivery of family law legal
services to low and middle-income Oregonians.” During the next four years the
Commission gathered both qualitative and quantitative information. They held
public monthly meetings, solicited written input from lawyers, litigants,
experts in the field, court clerks and all interested parties before drafting
the proposal and completing its final work with the recommendations found
here.” --<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:state>
Family Law Legal Services Commission<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The majority of Oregonians represent themselves in Family
Court. <i>“<st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:state> data indicates that <u>both</u> <u>sides</u>
<u>are</u> <u>self-represented</u> in approximately 49% of family law filings.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Oregonians now represent
themselves in Family Court in 67%-86% of the cases filed. Given the <b><i>huge
demand</i></b> for legal help in family law matters that nonprofit law firms
and the private bar <b><i>cannot meet</i></b>, access to justice efforts the last 10 years have
concentrated on the statewide availability of <b><i>model family law forms</i></b>
and <b><i>procedural
assistance</i></b> from courthouse facilitators. Now, <b>budget cutbacks</b> have led to reductions in existing court services
and stalled planning efforts focused on self-representation.” – Executive
Summary. Task Force on Family Law<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Self-representation in Family Court is a permanent aspect,
and the legal system’s response “must be actively planned.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“While the ultimate goal in
access to justice efforts is representation by attorneys, self- representation
is a permanent aspect of the family court. As such, the legal system’s response
to litigants without lawyers must be actively planned.” – Executive Summary.
Task Force on Family Law<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Budget pressures and other priorities contribute to reduced
access.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Since 2007, however,
significant budget reductions precipitated by the poor economy have stalled
energy and funding for both interactive forms and broader self-representation
planning. Moreover, some local courts have eliminated or reduced their
facilitation programs to preserve resources. Simultaneously, the court’s
partners in the access to justice community have continued to struggle with the
<b>high unmet demand for family law legal
services</b>. The poor economy has placed additional stress on this challenge.
In addition, <b>given the enormous public
need for family law help</b>, concern has arisen that market-minded
entrepreneurs may soon preempt access-oriented, quality-focused legal planners
by selling web-based interactive <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:state>
family law court forms for profit.” –Executive Summary, Task Force on Family
Law<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most victims of parental, family and organized child
abductions do not have a lawyer at the time of the kidnapping. No <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state> attorney
advertises a practice in child abduction crimes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are no “model family law forms” for an abduction. <i>Family law forms require service on the
other party</i>. In abductions, however, the other parties’ and the victim
children’s location is unknown, is likely to be transient, and they may be
living under assumed names.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abductions are always sneak attacks, with planning and
execution carried out in secret, and nearly always involving multiple
jurisdictions, long distances, more than one perpetrator, and two or more state
legal systems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Persons participating in a parental, family or organized
kidnapping will likely have intimate knowledge of the victims’ financial
resources, ability to access competent legal assistance and other weaknesses
prior to executing the crime.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are many variations of legal status. The parents of
the victim children may be married or unmarried, legally separated or not,
divorced or not, with or without custody orders. It may be a grandparent or
some other person who is the primary caregiver for the victim children and
reporting the crime. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A parent whose children have been abducted is likely to be
experiencing severe grief, shock, panic and depression. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>HB 2014</b> will
provide the 2014 Legislative Assembly with critical insights into how to
improve access to justice “when a child is reported to law enforcement
officials as missing by the parent, grandparent or legal custodian of the child”
or is brought to <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state>
under similar circumstances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><st1:stockticker w:st="on"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">III</span></b></st1:stockticker><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">. Finding
legal assistance in the wake of an abduction<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once the victim children have vanished, the victim parent, grandparent
or legal custodian reports the commission of a crime to local law enforcement
and then looks for competent legal advice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prior to the passage of Senate Bill 1041 (Aaron’s Law) in
2005, the only avenues of recourse a victim parent (or grandparent) had were
either through the Family Law system or the Criminal Law system. Neither system
recognizes the urgency of the situation, the emotional harm the victims are
suffering, or the fact that the longer the crime continues, the more extensive
and long-lasting the harm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neither system provides any point of control for the
victims, who become victims of both the crime and of the system itself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Family Law and Criminal Law systems are often
adversarial and have long built-into-the-process timelines, when the issue is
urgent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although <b>Senate Bill
1041 (2005) “Aaron’s Law”</b> made Oregon the first state in the nation where
child abduction creates a civil cause of action, no information about the law
or the Parental and Family Abduction Task Force is presently available through
the Oregon State Bar or Oregon State Police web sites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is the Yellow Pages and online referral systems, but
neither resource is likely to lead to an attorney specializing in child
abductions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>A.</b> <b>The Oregon State Bar</b> website contains
no information about parental and family abductions. There are no references to
the 2004 Parental and Family Abduction Task Force or Senate Bill 1041 (2005),
Aaron’s Law. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The “search” feature on the OSB website turns up no
information related to <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state>
legislation on the subject.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The OSB Legal Information Topics page contains no
information related to abductions in the Criminal Law or Family Law categories.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no link to the <b>Oregon
State Police Missing Children Clearinghouse</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Searches under “personal injury”, “civil suit” and “child
abuse” provide no useful links for abduction victims. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>B. The Oregon
Judicial Department</b> website contains no information about parental and
family abductions. There are no references to the 2004 Parental and Family
Abduction Task Force or Senate Bill 1041 (2005), Aaron’s Law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among the legal forms available on the website, none are
related to the issue, in which the whereabouts of the abducted children and the
abductors are unknown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The terms “abduction”, “custodial interference” and
“kidnapping” do not appear in the site’s listing of legal terms and
definitions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Under the heading “Family Law Topics”, there is no reference
to the crime, and none of the topics link to information about abduction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is no link to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><b>Oregon</b></st1:placename><b> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype></b></st1:place><b> Police Missing Children Clearinghouse.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>C. The</b> <b>Oregon State Police Missing Children
Clearinghouse</b> contains<b> </b>no
references to the 2004 Parental and Family Abduction Task Force or Senate Bill
1041 (2005), Aaron’s Law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The mission of the Missing
Children Clearinghouse is to receive and distribute information on missing
children to local law enforcement agencies, school districts, state and federal
agencies, and the public. In 1989, the <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:state>
legislature mandated that OSP establish and maintain a missing children
clearinghouse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“The goal of the Missing
Children Clearinghouse is to streamline the system, serving child victims and
their families by providing assistance to law enforcement agencies and the
public.” – Oregon State Police website<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is rare that a missing or abducted child appears on the
OSP clearinghouse website if a parent is involved in the abduction. The
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) frequently posts
photographs and other information about parentally abducted on its website that
are not matched on the Oregon State Police website. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As of this writing, NCMEC lists seven <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state> children as parental/family
abductions since 2007, plus Kyron Horman. The OSP site identifies only four of
these children, plus Kyron Horman.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There has been discrepancies of as many as 17 children
abducted from <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state>
who were listed on the NCMEC site but not on the OSP site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2012, the Beaverton Police Department issued a statement
identifying more than a dozen police and governmental agencies who assisted in
the recovery of a child who had been abducted and taken to <st1:country-region w:st="on">New Zealand</st1:country-region> by
his father. The Oregon State Police was not among them, and the child was never
listed as abducted on the Missing Children Clearinghouse website.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">IV. The roots of Senate Bill 1041
Aaron’s Law (2005)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A. The 1996 abduction
of Aaron Cruz and his siblings<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aaron Cruz and his three siblings disappeared from <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state> on <st1:date day="12" month="2" w:st="on" year="1996">Feb 12, 1996</st1:date> despite an
order for joint custody that had been in affect for five years. The number of
adult persons who took, kept and enticed the Cruz children in violation of the
order for joint custody and the Custodial Interference I and II statutes was
greater than ten and included the children’s mother, other family members, and
members of their church congregation that were unrelated to the victims. Their
motivation was to enforce a shunning against the children’s father. The intent
of the shunning was to prevent any contact of any kind between the children and
their father or members of their father’s family, permanently. The shunning
remains in effect today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The four Cruz children were kept incommunicado and taken to
a series of secret locations in <st1:state w:st="on">Utah</st1:state>,
where they were pressured to choose between parents, one to love with all their
hearts, and one to despise with equal fervor. Mail sent to my children at their
mother’s last known address in <st1:city w:st="on">Hillsboro</st1:city>
was forwarded to the address of a conspiring church member in <st1:city w:st="on">Hillsboro</st1:city> instead of on to the children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abducted children are forced to adhere to whatever cover
story their abductors require, are not permitted to grieve their losses, and
are likely to lose access to health care during their time on the run.
Abductors, acting in their own interest, will work hard to sever all emotional
ties the abducted children have to the victim parent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My children were taken on a journey through three divorces
and three stepdads in three states. My fight to locate and recover my children
would take me through four jurisdictions in three states, usually <i>pro se</i>, but never with the assistance of
an attorney competent in the issue of criminal child abductions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a single exception, every court officer, judge,
attorney, juror, witness and police officer I encountered through these four
jurisdictions was white, as were all of the persons participating in the
abduction, and several among them shared membership in the same church
congregation enforcing the shunning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Although the order for joint custody stated that all
decisions regarding the children’s education and non-emergency medical care
would be made “By Both Parents Together”, I was only able to access two
after-the-fact medical reports </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">for Aaron from <st1:state w:st="on">Utah</st1:state>,
and none for my other three children after they disappeared from <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state> in 1996. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prior to his abduction from <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state>, Aaron had no history of any serious
illness or injury. The first medical report for Aaron was an intake report
dated a year after his abduction began. He had been hospitalized for expressing
suicidal ideation. The report described him as severely depressed, underweight,
and noted many long scars from self-inflicted knife wounds across both of his
upper arms. The report quoted him as saying he cut himself to relieve his
emotional pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second medical report I received from <st1:state w:st="on">Utah</st1:state> about Aaron was his death certificate,
which stated that he had died from “undetermined causes.” He may have been a
suicide—there was a note—but it is also likely that he had run out of his
anti-seizure meds, suffered a seizure, fell into a coma and died. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When my three living children and I gathered around Aaron in
the Intensive Care Unit in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Payson</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Utah</st1:state></st1:place>, in April 2005, where he lay
comatose, it was the first time the five of us were together since the
abduction/shunning began in 1996. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the course of several days, from arriving at the
hospital to Aaron’s funeral service, my three surviving children and I spent
many hours together, and it appeared that we would re-establish our
relationships going forward. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My son Tyler, a member of the Utah Army National Guard,
invited me to see him off on his second tour to <st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region> several weeks after Aaron’s
death, and we spent five days together at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Camp
Shelby</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Mississippi</st1:state></st1:place>.
Tyler called me from Kuwait and sent me a single email from Ramadi, and we
appeared to be well connected, but over the next few weeks all of my children’s
email addresses and phone numbers went dead, just like every other time I found
them since the abduction began.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The shunning remains in effect today. Neither the Family Law
or Criminal Law systems in any of four jurisdictions in three states looked at
the persons engaged in the abduction, other than my former wife. After filing
the initial police report, I was never interviewed by a police detective. </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B. Legislative
history of Aaron’s Law<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1. Reporting the
crime to the Legislative Assembly</b>: During the <b>2001</b> legislative session, I met with Senator Avel Gordly in her
office in the Capitol and described the abduction of my children and the
failures of both the Family Law and Criminal Law systems to protect my family.
She promised to work on the issue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the fall of <b>2002</b>,
Senator Gordly offered me the opportunity to serve as her legislative staff in
the upcoming 2003 session. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the <b>2003</b>
session, I testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee and the <st1:street w:st="on">Joint Ways</st1:street> and
Means Public Safety Subcommittee. Senate President Peter Courtney appointed the
Senate President’s Interim Task Force on Parental and Family Abductions,
co-chaired by Senator Gordly and Senator Frank Morse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The <b>2004</b> Task
Force on Parental and Family Abductions was intended to build on the prior work
of the Family Law Task Force, which had been co-chaired by William Howe <st1:stockticker w:st="on">III</st1:stockticker> and the Honorable Judge Maureen McKnight, and
Judge McKnight was among those appointed to the abduction panel. I testified
before the Task Force in 2004.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Family Law Task Force had worked on strategies to reduce
the incidence of divorce in <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state>,
including the requirement that both parties enter into counseling before a
divorce is granted, in the event that some parties might reconsider for the
sake of the children. This idea would be incorporated into Senate Bill 1041 in
2005.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During the <b>2005</b>
legislative session, I testified on the crime and in support of Senate Bill
1041 before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Rules Committee, and the
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">House</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype></st1:place> and Federal Affairs Committee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Senate Bill 1041 passed the House on a unanimous vote and
was signed into law by Governor Ted Kulongoski in <b>2005</b>.</span></div>
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who were abducted as children speak:</b> Take Root is an advocacy group whose
membership is entirely composed of adults who were abducted by their parents
when they were children. Liss Hart-Haviv, the Executive Director and founder of
Take Root, was a key member of the Parental and Family Abduction Task Force.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Children who are hidden
from the justice and child protective systems by a fugitive parent are no less ‘missing’
than children taken by non-family members, and may find themselves in just as
much danger. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“50% of Take Root members
who were abducted by parents were also physically or sexually abused by those
parents. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Almost all suffered
profound psychological trauma from being cut off from their loved ones and kept
‘off the grid’ to evade discovery, sometimes deprived even of medical care or,
more commonly, schooling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“However, when society
hears about the crime of family abduction it is typically from the perspective
of a left-behind parent expressing his or her anguish over having a missing
child, or a taking parent justifying his or her actions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Seldom do we have the
opportunity to hear, firsthand, from the child about the experience of being abducted. Take
Root was established as a platform for the abducted to tell their side of the
story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“It is our hope that
raising awareness of the true danger and devastation faced by children who are
abducted by individuals to whom they are related will put an end to such cases
being dismissed as “custody battles” between parents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Take Root’s uniquely child-centered
training workshops and resources have proven effective at changing perceptions
of family abduction; educating law enforcement, policy makers, child advocates,
and missing child case managers from coast to coast about the realities of this
devastating crime against children.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“Nothing can replace the personal and professional experience that Take
Root’s workshops present, the focus on the child as victim – which can
sometimes get lost in the legal and technical aspects of the case or day-to-day
dealings with parents. Liss Haviv’s presentation was truly an incredible
experience and scored a perfect “5” on the evaluations – a first since we began
the class.”</i>- Ellen Conway, Director, Office of Children’s Issues, US
Department of State</span></div>
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Parental and Family Abductions (2004)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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testimony, and produced a Final Report to the Senate President prior to the
2005 legislative session.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>a. No numbers</b>:
that no person or entity knew the number of <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state> children suffering parental and
family abductions in any given period of time. No one tracks the cases on a
statewide basis. A parent’s report of the abduction of their child likely went
no further than the City or the County taking the police report. This is
probably still the case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>b. A broad lack of
awareness</b>: That there was a general lack of awareness among law
enforcement, the courts, the bar and social service professionals, which
partially explains the low priority all give to non-stranger abduction cases.
This lack of awareness factors into the system’s willingness to allow the
abducting parent and the parent’s associates to keep the children indefinitely,
and the failure of law enforcement, the bar and court officers to understand
that abductions are crimes in progress and respond accordingly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>c. Some parents use
their children as weapons: </b>That “often” parents “often” take out their
anger with each other through their children, and that some “even abduct their
own child.” The Task Force found “that this is extremely detrimental to the
emotional and mental well being of the children, and at time may even put the
life of the child in danger.” Non-parental accomplices of these crimes are even
more likely to disregard the safety and wellbeing of the abducted child.</span></div>
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trauma, injury and damage</b>: The real injuries an abducted child suffers is
not recognized in current statute. “…the injury a child receives, when the
child has been abducted by one of the child’s parents, does not necessarily
include physical injury. <i>The injury is
more in the nature of mental trauma or mental injury. Nonetheless, the injury
is real and may be even more long lasting and damaging than physical injury</i>.”—Abduction
Task Force</span></div>
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sex crimes against the child</b>: The Task Force recommended that the 2005
Legislative Assembly increase the statute of limitations for Custodial Interference
I and II offenses: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“This would mean that the statute of limitations for
custodial interference would be the same as it is currently for sex offenses.
Your Task Force believes that the rationale for doing this is the same for the
statute of limitations on sex crimes. A child who is removed from the lawful
custody of one parent by another is a victim. That child is similarly situated
to many underage victims of sex crimes. The perpetrator of the crime is the
child’s parent. Too often, at the time of the offense, the victim is unaware
that they have been abused or that they have a right to seek redress. LC 847
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person is an adult and better able to understand the ramifications of the
abduction.” –from the Final Report</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While the 2005 Legislative Assembly did not follow the Task
Force’s recommendation on extending the statute of limitations, Senate Bill
1041 did address the issue, providing child victims with a window to hold the
child’s abductors accountable that extends to six years after the child has
attained the age of 18.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 4<sup>th</sup> Family Law Conference, titled <i>“Out of the Frying Pan: Burning Issues in
Access to Justice”</i>, sponsored by the Oregon Judicial Department and the
State Family Law Advisory Committee, was held in Bend, Oregon, April 7-8, 2006.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Workshop #6: <u>Encountering Family Abductions in the Legal Setting</u></b>.
This workshop will offer information about family abductions, including
international abductions and the Hague convention, prosecution of custodial
interference, <span style="background: yellow; mso-highlight: yellow;">and
statutory approaches to preventing and dealing with abduction cases including
the new Aaron’s Law (SB 1041, Ch 841, Oregon Laws 2005)</span>. Dr. Edward
Vien, Psychologist, <st1:city w:st="on">Portland</st1:city>;
Hon. Terry Leggert, Circuit Court Judge, Marion County; Liss Hart-Haviv,
Executive Director, “Take Root”; Kathy Root, Attorney at Law, Portland;
Marshall Spector, Attorney at Law, Portland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>30.868
Civil damages for custodial interference; attorney fees.</b> (1) Any of the following
persons may bring a civil action to secure damages against any and all persons
whose actions are unlawful under ORS 163.257 (1)(a):<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (a)
A person who is 18 years of age or older and who has been taken, enticed or
kept in violation of ORS 163.257 (1)(a); or<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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A person whose custodial rights have been interfered with if, by reason of the
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (A)
The person has reasonably and in good faith reported a person missing to any
city, county or state police agency; or<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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A defendant in the action has been charged with a violation of ORS 163.257
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (2)
An entry of judgment or a certified copy of a judgment against the defendant
for a violation of ORS 163.257 (1)(a) is prima facie evidence of liability if
the plaintiff was injured by the defendant’s unlawful action under the
conviction.<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (3)(a)
For purposes of this section, a public or private entity that provides
counseling and shelter services to victims of domestic violence is not
considered to have violated ORS 163.257 (1)(a) if the entity provides
counseling or shelter services to a person who violates ORS 163.257 (1)(a).<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (b)
As used in this subsection, “victim of domestic violence” means an individual
against whom domestic violence, as defined in ORS 135.230, 181.610 or 411.117,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (4)
Bringing an action under this section does not prevent the prosecution of any
criminal action under ORS 163.257.<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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A person bringing an action under this section must establish by a
preponderance of the evidence that a violation of ORS 163.257 (1)(a) has
occurred.<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (6)
It is an affirmative defense to civil liability for an action under this
section that the defendant reasonably and in good faith believed that the
defendant’s violation of ORS 163.257 (1)(a) was necessary to preserve the
physical safety of:<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The defendant;<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The person who was taken, enticed or kept in violation of ORS 163.257 (1)(a);
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The parent or guardian of the person who was taken, enticed or kept in
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (7)(a)
If the person taken, enticed or kept in violation of ORS 163.257 (1)(a) is
under 18 years of age at the time an action is brought under this section, the
court may:<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (A)
Appoint an attorney who is licensed to practice law in <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state> to act as guardian ad litem for the
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Appoint one of the following persons to provide counseling services to the
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A psychologist licensed under ORS 675.010 to 675.150.<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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A professional counselor or marriage and family therapist licensed under ORS
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The court may assess against the parties all costs of the attorney or person
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (8)
If an action is brought under this section by a person described under
subsection (1)(b) of this section and a party shows good cause that it is
appropriate to do so, the court may order the parties to obtain counseling
directed toward educating the parties on the impact that the parties’ conflict
has on the person taken, enticed or kept in violation of ORS 163.257 (1)(a).
The court may assess against the parties all costs of obtaining counseling
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Upon prevailing in an action under this section, the plaintiff may recover:<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (10)
The court may award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party in an
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (11)(a)
Notwithstanding ORS 12.110, 12.115, 12.117 or 12.160, an action under this
section must be commenced within six years after the violation of ORS 163.257
(1)(a). An action under this section accruing while the person who is entitled
to bring the action is under 18 years of age must be commenced not more than
six years after that person attains 18 years of age.<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The period of limitation does not run during any time when the person taken,
enticed or kept in violation of ORS 163.257 (1)(a) is removed from this state
as a result of the defendant’s actions in violation of ORS 163.257 (1)(a).
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Child abduction,
causing a child to disappear for any length of time, is child abuse. The
consequences can be devastating to the child and the child’s family, with
damages accruing minute by minute over months and years. The harm can extend
into the next generation. Much of the damage can never be remedied. Deterrence
and prevention is vital. Custodial interference statutes are ineffective. The
Criminal Law and Family Law systems do not provide an appropriate response to
the problem. Victims ought to be able to hold their children’s abductors
accountable in civil court. Child victims ought to be able to hold their
abductors accountable in civil court once the child has become an adult. No
person is exempt from the law.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are the parent of a child abducted by the other parent.
You did not see this coming. You do not know where they are, where they are
going, if they are using assumed names or many other important details. Your
child may have medical issues. You are certain that your ex intends to keep
your child from you permanently. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now you have to convince someone—many persons in a gulag of
systems and strangers—that you are not exaggerating, that your child is
suffering, that this is an emergency. You must find legal help in at least two
state systems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having reported the crime to law enforcement and facing the
systemic access to justice and lack of awareness issues outlined above, the
victim parent, grandparent or legal custodian either enters the Family Law
system <i>pro se</i>, or finds an attorney
willing to take the case. Family Law attorneys will tell you that they do not
practice criminal law. They will work the case as a custody issue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Family Law system is a labyrinth of overburdened courts,
bewildering forms and procedures, long timelines, requirements that make swift
action impossible, and staffed by persons who lack awareness of the difference
between a custody fight and a cold-blooded kidnapping. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Law enforcement response to the abduction is subject to
statutory issues identified elsewhere in this report, and the fact that no
charges will be filed before </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">prosecutors believe that they have sufficient evidence to
convince a jury to reach a unanimous verdict “beyond a reasonable doubt.” The
Kyron Horman abduction, now entering its third year, illustrates this point
very clearly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Criminal Law system is also very rigid in certain
respects, and the victim parent may not want to see the abducting parent go to
jail, as was the case in the Cruz abduction.<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333; font-size: 10pt;"> </span>. In many
cases, incarcerating a parent adds to the ongoing trauma suffered by the child
victims.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neither system offers good, appropriate choices for the
victim family. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Filing a civil suit for damages against persons who you can locate,
however, who you can prove “by a preponderance of the evidence” instead of
“beyond a reasonable doubt” did in fact “take, keep or entice” your child in
the course of the abduction, provides abduction victims with a range of options
unavailable in either the criminal or family law systems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Civil suits can be brought forward more quickly also,
potentially shortening the time that your child is abducted, and time is of the
essence in kidnappings.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With the passage of
Senate Bill 1041 in 2005, Oregon became the first state in the nation where
abducting a child creates a civil cause of action, the right to sue for damages
to your child and your family, and the right of the abducted child to seek
redress when the child becomes an adult.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">B. Who you serve and 142
reasons why:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You probably do not know where your ex is concealing your
child and thus cannot serve legal process papers, but you become aware that
your ex has assistance in carrying out the crime, whether providing logistical,
financial or planning support in taking, keeping or enticing the child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This person or these persons can likely provide information
leading to where your child is being concealed. <i>You file suit under ORS 30.868, Aaron’s Law.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aaron’s Law is intended to serve as a powerful deterrent to
persons considering aiding in a parental, family or organized child abduction.
The prospect of defending oneself against liability for “(a) Special and general damages,
including damages for emotional distress; and (b) Punitive damages”, as
well as attorney’s fees, would discourage many from joining in facilitating a
kidnapping.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
Kyron Horman abduction illustrates the concept very plainly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The disappearance
of 8-year old Kyron Horman nearly three years ago triggered the largest search
effort in <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state>
history. No criminal charges have been filed in the case, and police have
released an age-progressed image of what they think Kyron might look like
today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last seen in the
company of his step mom, Terri Horman, the multiple searches turned up no trace
of the child. Law enforcement has named no suspects or persons of interest, <i>officially,</i> although those terms most
certainly describe Kyron’s step mom Terri Horman and her close friend DeDe
Spicher, <i>unofficially</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Both women have
stubbornly refused to account for their whereabouts during the crucial two
hours on the morning of <st1:date day="4" month="6" w:st="on" year="2010">June
4, 2010</st1:date>, when Kyron vanished from the face of the earth, as did
these two women, albeit temporarily in their cases.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With both the
criminal and family law courts at a stand still, unable to move forward,
Kyron’s mother Desiree Young filed a civil suit against Terri Horman, alleging
that the step mom knows where Kyron is and whether he is dead or alive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DeDe Spicher invoked the 5<sup>th</sup>
Amendment 142 times during her deposition.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">C. Domestic violence
exception: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No “public or private entity that provides counseling and shelter services to victims of
domestic violence” can be sued under Aaron’s Law, nor can parents fleeing
domestic violence situations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>D. Counseling for
resolution and deterrence:</b> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Borrowing from the Abduction Task Force’s predecessor, the
Family Law Task Force, Aaron’s Law authorizes the Court to order “the parties”
to the civil suit into counseling directed at educating “the parties” as to the
harm their conduct is causing the victim children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This feature is intended to serve as a tool for both
resolution and deterrence.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">E. The child victim
becomes an adult: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Parental and Family Abduction Task Force noted the
similar trauma in child abduction and child sex crime victims, recommending an
increase in the statute of limitations, but no change to the criminal statute has
been made. Under Aaron’s Law, however, a child victim has a six-year window to
hold persons participating in the abduction accountable, beginning when the
child becomes an adult. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This concept is intended to serve in the cause of justice
and as an additional deterrent. It also better places the Custodial
Interference I and II statutes in the context of the crime, which is a <i>continuing</i> crime, and the persons
involved are responsible for everything that happens after the kidnapping is
initiated.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">F. Protecting the
interest of the child: <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When a civil suit is filed under Aaron’s Law, the Court is
immediately authorized (encouraged) to appoint legal and mental health and
other qualified professionals to see to the interests of the child, and to
assess the costs to “the parties” as the Court sees appropriate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This concept results in part from the findings of the
Parental and Family Abduction Task Force. The cost assessment feature is
intended to act as a further deterrent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>G. Aaron’s Law and
child trafficking</b>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While ORS 30.868 Aaron’s Law has yet to be tested in a child
sex trafficking case, it could be a very useful tool in providing resolution
and as a deterrent, were it to be better understood by professionals working in
that field.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">VI. Case Study: The Kyron Horman
abduction<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“There is no case like this.”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A. “There is no case
like this.”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Kyron Horman abduction is unique in many respects. The
missing child has triggered the largest search effort in the history of <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state>, now entering its
third year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is also the first known instance of a filing under ORS
30.868 Aaron’s Law.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Desiree Young, Kyron’s mother, filed the civil suit on <st1:date day="1" month="6" w:st="on" year="2012">June 1, 2012</st1:date>, as reported in
The Oregonian:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> “There is no case
like this – even close to these circumstances,” (Multnomah Judge Henry) Kantor
said….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">…."I will forever have a
hole in my heart because he is not here," Young said, shaking as she stood
outside Portland's Justice Center and beside respected civil rights attorney
Elden Rosenthal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">….The lawsuit argues that Terri Horman
"intentionally interfered" with Young's parental rights, and
intentionally inflicted severe emotional distress on her. Young shared joint
legal custody of Kyron after her divorce from Kaine Horman in 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #363636;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rosenthal pledged to aggressively use all the
tools afforded to him in a civil case "to peel away the layers of mystery
surrounding Kyron's disappearance," and to add more names to the suit if
others are responsible. He said he will issue subpoenas for witnesses to
testify under oath, and compel the production of documents, such as e-mails and
text messages.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: yellow; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #363636;">"There
are some cases that require victims of wrongs to use the civil justice
system," Rosenthal said. "This case is one of them."</span><span style="color: #363636;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/06/kyron_hormans_mother_seeking_t.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/06/kyron_hormans_mother_seeking_t.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kyron Horman’s is the only <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state> abduction case that has lasted longer
in the media than a single news cycle. Most parental and family abduction cases
never make the news. The families suffer in private, and an abduction case is
isolating by its very nature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kyron’s disappearance attracted media attention for three
reasons unique to the case:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. He disappeared from his school, attracting attention from
parents, teachers and school officials across the state and beyond. Most
kidnappers will want to avoid attracting attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. No one else close to Kyron was also missing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Kyron’s stepfather is a police detective. When he was
discovered missing, his family had instant credibility with law enforcement,
and police were on it in a matter of minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>B. On meeting “The
Criteria”</b>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Kyron Horman abduction is complicated for many reasons.
Obviously, law enforcement has not been able to assemble evidence sufficient to
move a jury to a unanimous verdict “beyond all reasonable doubt”, which is why
no criminal charges have been filed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This obstacle in the Criminal Law system is holding back
both the Family Law process and the civil suit filed under Aaron’s Law.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But most parental and
family abductions do not face this obstacle, because there is no criminal
proceeding under way and law enforcement is not actively looking for the
abducted child(ren). <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During a press conference two years ago, the Multnomah
County Sheriff was asked if there were any other missing children besides Kyron
out there, and the Sheriff responded “none that meet the criteria.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whatever “the criteria” is, it is important that both the
public and the professionals whom the public relies on for justice and to
protect their families understand what the criteria is, what the rules are and
how to make them work better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>HB 2014</b> will
provide the 2014 Legislative Assembly with information vital to making the
Criminal Law, Family Law and Civil Law systems work better for the benefit of
all <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state>
children, and for those children who are brought to <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state> under similar circumstances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><st1:stockticker w:st="on"><b>VII</b></st1:stockticker><b>.
Attitudes as Obstacles to Access to Justice<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“Happy
families are all alike; every unhappy family is
unhappy in its own way.” –</i>Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My personal experience as the parent of abducted children is
my own, but over the years since I began working on child abduction prevention
legislation, several dozen <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state>
parents whose children have disappeared with the ex (and the ex’s associates)
have contacted me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the details of their respective family situations, they
each had their own stories. Some were still married to the other parent; some
had never been married; some were in the process of divorce; some long
divorced. Their legal status was of every sort, and the number and ages of the
victim children as varied as can be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But in the issue of access to justice, all of the stories
were the same, the same as mine, we parents of children abducted by known
perpetrators.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These grieving parents had all reported the crime to law
enforcement, but the police were not looking for their children. They were all
in some sort of limbo—at best—with the Family Law system. Some had lawyers at
different points in their story, some did not. They all reported problems in
finding a lawyer willing to listen, much less help, and all while time slipped
away forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A father whose non-custodial ex-wife had disappeared with
the children in February was told by a police detective the following September
that the department couldn’t act because the Custodial Interference statute had
no definition of “protracted.” They couldn’t be sure it had reached that point.
The children were eventually recovered from <st1:state w:st="on">Arizona</st1:state>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These parents had found me through my writing posted on the
web. They had gone online desperate for help, for ideas. They had learned about
Aaron’s Law and had read it through, but were unable to find a lawyer in <st1:state w:st="on">Oregon</st1:state> who was familiar
with ORS 30.868.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is why they were contacting me, after all of this had
happened. And there was yet a missing child and time was of the essence, and
they were clinging to threads of hope.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Your children will
find you some day (Don’t worry be happy)”<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my experience, supported in conversations with these
other parents of children abducted by known perpetrators, significant barriers
to recovery and in access to justice lie in people’s minds, both in those who
people The System and those in the general public, all stemming from the same
lack of awareness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moving a child during the course of a custody battle is one
thing; <i>causing the child to vanish is
another</i>. Taking, keeping or enticing a disappeared child that a person is
not related to ought to be a behavior that the System especially discourages,
and sharply. A person aiding and abetting the taking of that disappeared child
across state lines ought to be held accountable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But there is a tendency for people to marginalize the crime,
if not exactly trivialize it. <i>Be patient.
It will be OK. </i>People with passive personalities will counsel more patience
and an optimistic attitude. <i>Your children
will find you some day</i>. Writing off your child’s entire childhood…<i>learn to accept it</i>…your teenager’s
entire adolescence…<i>Keep your chin up,
someday your grandchild will want to know something about you…</i>People wonder
when you will move on<i>.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Caseworkers have big caseloads; department budgets are
constrained; No one knows what “protracted” means; most Oregonians cannot
afford an attorney….</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We ought to know,
however, what chain of events takes place when a child disappears, either from <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:state> or into <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Oregon</st1:place></st1:state>. Please move <b>HB 2014</b> forward.</span></i></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30929496.post-21504963656591546242013-03-31T20:41:00.000-07:002013-03-31T20:41:00.385-07:00Testimony for the House Judiciary Committee in support of HB 2014, related to child abduction<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By Sean Aaron Cruz</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><st1:place><st1:placename>Oregon</st1:placename> <st1:placetype>State</st1:placetype></st1:place>
Capitol, <st1:place><st1:city>Salem</st1:city>, <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state></st1:place>—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the record my name is Sean Aaron Cruz. I am here today
to testify in support of House Bill 2014, and am very grateful for State Representative
Alissa Keny-Guyer’s leadership on this urgent issue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chair Barker, Vice Chairs Garrett and Kreiger, and members
of the Committee, it is good to see so many friendly and familiar faces. I owe
many of you my lifelong gratitude for your support of Senator Avel Gordly’s Senate
Bill 1041 in the 2005 session, which passed on a unanimous House floor vote. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Senate Bill 1041 has since come to be known as Aaron’s Law,
in memory of my late, abducted son Aaron Cruz, and I hope that someday its
principles will be applied nationwide. If Aaron’s Law had been on the books in
1995, then my family would be whole and my son still alive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, it has been seventeen years since my four children
disappeared in an abduction organized by members of a church congregation in
three states, and it is my opinion that very little has changed either to deter
or resolve non-stranger abductions in <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I first briefed Senator Avel Gordly to the story of my
children’s abduction and to the issue in general in 2001, and she promised to
work on legislative solutions. In 2002, she offered me the job as her
legislative staff, and I began to work on legislation in the 2003 session, when
I testified before Senate Judiciary and the Ways and Means Public Safety
Subcommittee. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever since the 2003 session, I have been contacted by
parents whose children have been abducted by the other parent, which is how I
became acquainted with Mrs Charisse Laverdiere, who has traveled from Southern
California to speak with you today, and their stories all have similar
elements, like mine. Mrs. Laverdiere is the most recent of several dozen
parents who have contacted me for advice over the years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are all parents of children who have been abducted by
known perpetrators. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have gotten no help from the police in large part because
the children are with a parent, but there are also several statutory and
institutional factors that contribute to the inaction of law enforcement and
that continue to stand in the way of the recovery of our children and many
others like us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We parents of abducted children can’t find a lawyer willing
to listen to our stories or who might be familiar with the issue of
non-stranger child abduction in any real sense of legal expertise. I never met
one. Family lawyers will tell you they don’t practice criminal law. They want to frame it as a custody issue. If
the parent can get into court, with or without a lawyer, the judge is no help,
and court processes can grind out over years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And yet there is still a child missing, a child suffering
terrible abuse, emotional abuse that amounts to torture. These parents start
looking for help on line and that leads them to me, from all over the state
since 2003.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The status quo in 1996 when my children were abducted is
much the same status quo today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are here today, Mrs Charisse Laverdiere and I, to
describe to you the chain of events that have taken place in our lives as
parents whose children were abducted from <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>
by known perpetrators.</span></div>
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<i><u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(to Mrs
Laverdiere’s testimony)<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With Aaron’s Law, <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>
became the first state in the nation where abducting a child creates a civil
cause of action, providing new tools to deter and resolve non-stranger child
abductions. It is now more than seven years after its passage and still no
information about the statute appears on the Oregon State Police Missing and
Exploited Children Clearinghouse website, and last summer its first known application
came in the Kyron Horman case. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have no idea how a citizen whose child has been abducted or
who is in danger of being abducted would learn that the law exists or how it
might be applied. It’s buried in the ORS where only a lawyer could find it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Kyron Horman abduction is unique in several ways. It is
the largest search effort in the history of the state, and is at the same time
probably the only non-stranger abducted child that <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>
law enforcement is actually looking for. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During a press conference two years ago, the Sheriff was
asked if there were any other missing children besides Kyron out there, and the
Sheriff responded “none that meet the criteria.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What <i>is</i> the
criteria, exactly? What chain of events take place when a child is </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">reported missing or abducted? What does it take for a parent
of an abducted child to be taken seriously by the Oregon State Police? Who
knows?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 2004 Senate President’s Interim Parental and Family
Abduction Task Force found that no state agency—and therefore no one—knew how
many <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state> children were
abducted in any given period of time, because no one was tracking them. They
estimated the number at several thousand, but no one knew for sure. These facts
are in the Task Force’s Final Report. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’d like also to call the Committee’s attention to the news
release from the Beaverton Police Department dated <st1:date day="16" month="5" year="2012">May 16, 2012</st1:date>. More than a dozen police agencies
and other governmental agencies in the US, New Zealand, Australia and Canada
were involved in recovering this child, and yet the Oregon State Police is not
one of them, and no information about this child, missing since December 2010,
was ever posted on the OSP Missing and Exploited Children’s Clearinghouse. What
is the criteria?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are other cases where children who have been
parentally abducted from <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>
are identified on the National Clearinghouse for Missing and Exploited
Children, but not on the OSP website.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is the criteria? What is the chain of events that take
place in <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state> when a child is
reported abducted by a known perpetrator?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We urge your strong support for HB 2014.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Additional comments
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 2004 Task Force on Parental and Family Abductions
identified several </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">systemic and institutional problems, among them:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(1) That “often” parents “often” take out their anger with
each other through their children, and that some “even abduct their own child.”
The Task Force found “that this is extremely detrimental to the emotional and
mental well being of the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">children, and at time may even put the life of the child in
danger.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(2) The real injuries a child suffers is not recognized in
current statute. “…the injury a child receives, when the child has been
abducted by one of the child’s parents, does not necessarily include physical
injury. <i>The injury is more in the </i></span><i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">nature of mental
trauma or mental injury. Nonetheless, the injury is real and may </span></i><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">be even more long
lasting and damaging than physical injury</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(3) That there was a general lack of awareness among law
enforcement, the courts, the bar and social service professionals, which partially
explains the low priority all give to non-stranger abduction cases. This lack
of awareness factors into the system’s willingness to allow the abducting
parent to keep the children indefinitely, and the failure of law enforcement,
the bar and court officers to understand that abductions are <i>continuing</i> crimes and respond
accordingly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(4) No person or entity in <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>
knew the number of non-stranger abduction cases originating in <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>,
because no agency was tracking them; there was no system to track them; A
parent’s report of the abduction of their child likely </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">went no further than the City or the County taking the
police report. This is probably still the case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Time is everything. But no one is interested. The court
processes take no interest in the issue of time, the value of time in the life
of a child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No one understands that a crime is being committed, multiple
crimes. The abduction of your child drains every last emotional reserve and
financial resource you have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My four children disappeared from <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>
in a church-sponsored abduction on <st1:date day="12" month="2" year="1996">February
12, 1996</st1:date>, during the Great Storm of that year, organized by Mormon church
officials in three states: <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>,
<st1:state>Washington</st1:state> and <st1:state>Utah</st1:state>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At a time when I-84 through the Gorge and I-5 at Tacoma were
closed due to landslides and flooding, when my children’s friends and
classmates were safe at home or in school in Washington County, members of this
church group, I came </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">to learn later, were holding my kids in a motel on the </span><st1:state style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oregon</st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
coast. They waited for the storm to clear and then took my kids to </span><st1:state style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Utah</st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">,
where fellow church members concealed my kids in a series of locations east of </span><st1:place style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><st1:city>Ogden</st1:city>,
<st1:state>Utah</st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, intending to keep them from me
permanently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Custodial Interference statute states:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ORS 163.245</b>: “<span style="color: red;">A person</span>
commits the crime of custodial interference in the second degree if, knowing or
having reason to know that the person has no legal right to do so, the person <span style="color: red;">takes, entices or keeps</span> another person from the other
person’s lawful custodian or in violation of a valid joint custody order with
intent to hold the other person <span style="color: red;">permanently</span> <span style="color: red;">or for a protracted period</span>.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>ORS 163.257</b>: “<span style="color: red;">A person</span>
commits the crime of custodial interference in the first degree if the person
violates ORS 163.245 and:<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (a) Causes the person taken,
enticed or kept from the lawful custodian or in violation of a valid joint
custody order <span style="color: red;">to be removed from the state</span>; or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that person to a substantial risk of illness or physical injury.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The statutes make no exceptions for the other parent, family
members or members of a church congregation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My son Aaron died in <st1:state>Utah</st1:state>,
alone and sick and without the medical attention he had needed for years, and
my three surviving children continue to live in church enclaves, completely
contained within my former wife’s church. The people who abducted my children
got exactly what they wanted. All this despite an order for joint custody that
had been in effect for five years at the time of the abduction.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abductions have beginnings but no real endings. The damage
is life long. I don’t think that there is such a thing as a happy ending, all
the more reason to take steps to deter people from abducting their own
children, which is the whole point to Senate Bill 1041, Aaron’s Law, and why HB
2014 is not only necessary but <i>urgently </i>necessary
and important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[] Define “protracted” in the Custodial Interference
statute. The lack of a definition contributes directly to the inaction of law
enforcement. How lengthy a head start should a kidnapper have? What is a
reasonable period of time?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[] Add child abduction to the statutory definition of
domestic violence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[] Recognize the abducted child’s mental and emotional
injuries in statute and actual practice. Prioritize deterrence and access to
medical resources.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[] Recognize abduction as a “continuing crime” in statute
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[] Recognize that parental abductions often involve multiple
perpetrators. Hold them all accountable, which is normally the case in property
or violent crimes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[] Require local law enforcement to pass all reports of
missing or abducted </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">children to the State Police Missing Children’s Clearinghouse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[] Add a synopsis of Senate Bill 1041 Aaron’s Law to the OSP
Missing Children’s Clearinghouse and elsewhere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[] Recognize nontraditional family relationships in the
Custodial Interference statutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[] Improve education and awareness throughout the state,
beginning at the state bar, law enforcement and the courts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Attachments: </b><st1:city>Beaverton</st1:city>
PD news release, <st1:date day="16" month="5" year="2012">May 16, 2012</st1:date></span></div>
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<st1:place><st1:city>Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state></st1:place>—</div>
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State Representative Alissa Keny-Guyer (D, <st1:city>Portland</st1:city>,
House District 46) has introduced legislation calling for an Oregon State
Police study of the issue of children abducted both from and to <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>.</div>
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HB 2014 is the first legislation on the issue since the
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Representative Keny-Guyer’s bill addresses the issue of
parental, family and church-sponsored abductions in several important ways<i>, and I want to underscore the fact that
when your child disappears, every barrier and everything that delays or
prevents the recovery of your child matters, every minute of every day matters,
and it will matter for the rest of your and your children’s lives.</i></div>
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<b>(1) HB 2014 calls on
the </b><st1:place><st1:placename><b>Oregon</b></st1:placename><b> </b><st1:placetype><b>State</b></st1:placetype></st1:place><b> Police</b> to report on “the chain of events that take place when a
child is reported to law enforcement officials as missing by the parent,
grandparent or legal custodian of the child.”</div>
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officials ignore reports of missing/abducted children from grandparents and
non-custodial parents. </div>
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Yet, all too often, children are abducted by family members
in situations where the parents are still married or were never married, and
thus there is no custody order.</div>
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raising the child(ren), but has no standing in court.</div>
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the whole of the child(ren)’s family into view, and asks the question, “What
chain of events takes place….”</div>
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<b>(2) HB 2014 calls on
the </b><st1:place><st1:placename><b>Oregon</b></st1:placename><b> </b><st1:placetype><b>State</b></st1:placetype></st1:place><b> Police</b> to report on “the chain of events that take place when a
child is reported to law enforcement officials as having been brought to <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>
in violation of a lawful custody order issued by a court of competent
jurisdiction in another state.”</div>
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There has been no prior study on this issue, what happens
when a child is abducted from somewhere else and brought to <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>.</div>
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<b>(3)</b> <b>HB 2014 calls on the Oregon State Police</b>
to report on “any progress that has been made in conducting investigations” of
children abducted to or from Oregon since the issuance of the final report of
the 2004 Senate Interim Task Force on Parental and Family Abductions.”</div>
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The 2004 Senate Interim Task Force on Parental and Family
Abductions built on prior work by the earlier Task Force on Family Law, which
sought to reduce the incidence of divorce in <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>.</div>
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Among the findings of the Task Force on Parental and Family
Abductions was the shocking realization that no state agency knew the number of
non-stranger child abduction cases occurring in <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>,
because no one tracks them. The Oregon State Police made promises to the
legislature in 2005 that they would do so in the future.</div>
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The 2004 Task Force on Parental and Family Abductions laid
the groundwork for Senate Bill 1041 “Aaron’s Law” in 2005. With the passage of
SB 1041, <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state> became the first
state in the nation where abducting a child (violating the Custodial
Interference I statute) creates a civil cause of action. </div>
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Aaron’s Law provides parents of abducted children with new
tools to deter and resolve cases where parents or family members or members of
a church congregation engaging in a shunning have abducted a child in the state
of <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>.</div>
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77th <st1:state>OREGON</st1:state>
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session<o:p></o:p></div>
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Sponsored by
Representative KENY-GUYER; Representatives BARTON, GARRETT, KRIEGER</div>
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SUMMARY<o:p></o:p></div>
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Requires
Department of State
Police to conduct
study on issues related to
abduction of children. Directs
department to report
results of study
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committees of Legislative
Assembly related to crime
on or before
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<st1:date day="1" month="11" year="2014">November 1,
2014</st1:date>. Sunsets <st1:date day="2" month="1" year="2015">January
2, 2015</st1:date>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Declares emergency, effective
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A <st1:stockticker>BILL</st1:stockticker> FOR AN ACT</div>
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Relating to the
abduction of children;
and declaring an
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Be It Enacted by the People of the State of <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>:<o:p></o:p></div>
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SECTION 1. (1) The Department of State Police shall conduct
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(a) The chain of events that take place when a child is
reported to law enforcement officials as missing by the parent, grandparent or
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(b) The chain of events that take place when a child is
reported to law enforcement officials as having been brought to Oregon in
violation of a lawful custody order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction
in another state;<o:p></o:p></div>
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(c) Investigation procedures related to violations of ORS
163.245 and 163.257; and<o:p></o:p></div>
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(d) Any progress that has been made in conducting
investigations described in paragraphs (a) to (c) of this subsection since the
issuance of the final report of the 2004 Senate Interim Task Force on Parental
and Family Abductions.<o:p></o:p></div>
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(2) The department shall report the results of the study to
the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to crime on or
before <st1:date day="1" month="11" year="2014">November 1, 2014</st1:date>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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SECTION 2. Section 1 of this 2013 Act is repealed on <st1:date day="2" month="1" year="2015">January 2, 2015</st1:date>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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SECTION 3. This 2013 Act being necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared
to exist, and this 2013 Act takes effect on its passage.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski signed Senate
Bill 1041 (Aaron’s Law) with my son’s picture on his desk in 2005</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By Sean Aaron Cruz</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><st1:place><st1:city>Portland</st1:city>, <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state></st1:place>—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Please tell Sean that I also wish him
the best. I have also followed his career and believe his personal experience
has given him the wisdom and the moral authority necessary to make a real difference in making <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>
safer for our children.” –Judge Jim Fun, <st1:place><st1:placename>Washington</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype>County</st1:placetype></st1:place> Circuit Court, <st1:date day="24" month="1" year="2007">January 24, 2007</st1:date></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I received this message from Judge Fun’s judicial assistant.
He was writing in regard to the work I had done on the issue of child abduction
since my four children disappeared into <st1:state>Utah</st1:state>
in a Mormon kidnapping in 1996. Each year, more than 200,000 <st1:country-region>U.S.</st1:country-region>
children are abducted by their own parents, family members or persons known to
the family, as in church-sponsored abductions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judge Fun knew the issue and my family’s case very well. In
1997, he had been the Assistant District Attorney who prosecuted the 1<sup>st</sup>
degree Custodial Interference case against my former wife, which came to trial
nearly a year and a half after my kids had disappeared, and who were still being
held incommunicado in <st1:state>Utah</st1:state> at the
time of trial. He had noticed during jury selection that the defense referred
to a Washington County LDS church roster, and that there were a number of
Mormons on the jury. You know how that turned out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Judge Fun was writing about what I had done since then,
after the failures of both the criminal and family law systems in the wake of
the abduction of my children, with that experience and with that moral
authority:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first and most important thing I accomplished was to
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m a writer, an essayist and a blogger, so I wrote and I
blogged, posting a couple of hundred essays over the years. I had alerted and
informed Senator Avel Gordly about the issue long before she hired me to serve
as her legislative staff in 2003. That year, I testified before the Senate
Judiciary Committee and the <st1:street>Joint Ways</st1:street>
and Means Public Safety Subcommittee, and Senate President Peter Courtney
appointed the Senate President’s Interim Task Force on Parental and Family
Abduction to examine the issue and report its findings to the 2005 legislature.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I testified before the Task Force in 2004, describing how
both the family law and criminal law systems and an order for joint custody had
failed to protect my children and my family. The fact is these systems fail in
non-stranger abduction cases far more often than they succeed, which explains
the high numbers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Task Force found that the experience of abduction by any
person is harmful to the child, and as abusive as any other form of child
abuse. The consequences of this abuse are life long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2005, Senator Gordly assigned me to lead the workgroup on
her landmark Senate Bill 1041. In that legislative session, I testified before
the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Rules Committee and before the <st1:place><st1:placename>House</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype>State</st1:placetype></st1:place> and Federal Affairs Committee
as we moved SB 1041 through the building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bill went through ten major rewrites on its way to
passage on a dramatic, unanimous House vote on the last day of the 2005 legislative
session. It immediately became known as Aaron’s Law, in memory of my late son
Aaron Cruz, who had died in <st1:place><st1:city>Payson</st1:city>, <st1:state>Utah</st1:state></st1:place>,
earlier that year, a direct consequence of his abduction and forced immersion
into Mormonism.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With Aaron’s Law (ORS 30.868), <st1:state>Oregon</st1:state>
became the first state in the nation where child abduction creates a civil
cause of action, providing kidnapping victims with new tools to see justice
served, and real deterrents to abducting a child in the first place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, in 2012, Aaron’s Law is seeing its first usage in the
Kyron Horman case, first such case in the nation, a civil lawsuit for the crime
of custodial interference in the 1<sup>st</sup> degree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’ve written extensively about the particulars of Aaron’s
Law at <a href="http://www.blogoliticalsean.blogspot.com/">www.blogoliticalsean.blogspot.com</a>
and <a href="http://www.aaronslaw.blogspot.com/">www.AaronsLaw.blogspot.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Earlier this year, I took my son Aaron’s name as my own
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, all this to say that many of my readers who know me
through my work on issues other than child abduction and who are unfamiliar
with the story of the abduction of my children may think that I might be unfair
or exaggerating where I refer to Mormons and Mormonism, but I want you all to
know that I am speaking from experience and with moral authority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are your children and grandchildren protected from parental, family, church-sponsored or other non-stranger abductions? Only if the child(ren) is(are) abducted from Oregon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Talk to your legislators and Congressional delegation. Here is the model legislation:</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">30.868 Civil damages for custodial interference; attorney fees.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (1) Any of the following persons may bring a civil action to secure damages against any and all persons whose actions are unlawful under ORS 163.257 (1)(a):</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/030.html">http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/030.html</a><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14818577155071008136noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30929496.post-20355254356933765302012-10-24T14:54:00.001-07:002012-10-24T18:12:15.584-07:00Aaron's Law at work: Taking the 5th 142 times<br />
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<st1:date day="24" month="10" year="2012"><span style="font-family: Arial;">October 24, 2012</span></st1:date><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<st1:place><st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">Portland</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oregon</span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The disappearance of 8-year
old Kyron Horman more than two years ago triggered the largest search effort in
</span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oregon</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;"> history. No criminal charges have been filed in the
case, and police have released an age-progressed image of what they think Kyron
might look like today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Last seen in the company of
his step mom, Terri Horman, the multiple searches turned up no trace of the
child. Law enforcement has named no suspects or persons of interest, <i>officially,</i> although those terms most certainly
describe Kyron’s step mom and her close friend DeDe Spicher, <i>unofficially</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Both women have stubbornly
refused to account for their whereabouts during the crucial two hours on the
morning of </span><st1:date day="4" month="6" year="2010"><span style="font-family: Arial;">June 4, 2010</span></st1:date><span style="font-family: Arial;">, when Kyron vanished from the face of the earth, as
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the criminal and family law courts at a stand still, unable to move forward,
Kyron’s mother Desiree Young filed a civil suit against Terri Horman, alleging
that the step mom knows where Kyron is and whether he is dead or alive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As reported in The Oregonian
yesterday, DeDe Spicher invoked the 5<sup>th</sup> Amendment 142 times during a
recent deposition.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #363636; font-family: Georgia;">Spicher declined to answer any questions posed
by Young's lawyers on Oct. 5 that involved Terri Horman, Kyron's stepmom, or
Kyron -- each time asserting her Fifth Amendment constitutional right not to
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<span style="background: white;">"Are you aware that Kyron Horman has
disappeared?" asked Young's lawyer, Elden Rosenthal.<span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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right," Spicher replied, according to a transcript filed in Multnomah
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Terri Horman, or whether she knew Terri Horman's husband, Kaine Horman, Young,
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This civil suit is
authorized by Senate Bill 1041 (2005), known as “Aaron’s Law” for my late son
Aaron Cruz, who died earlier that year as a consequence of his abduction from </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oregon</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;"> in 1996. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">With the passage of Aaron’s
Law, Oregon became the first state in the nation where child abduction creates
a civil cause of action, providing family members with new tools when law
enforcement and the courts fail to act, and yet there is a child missing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The civil suit filed by
Kyron’s family is the first under Aaron’s Law, and thus first in the nation.
“There is no other case like this,” the judge hearing the suit said, and as
this process moves forward, there will be many places where precedent will be
established and challenged.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Already there is the
question of whether a person (Spicher) can take the 5<sup>th</sup> in <i>civil</i> court to shield another person
(Terri Horman) when neither has been charged with a crime or has been named by
law enforcement as a suspect or person of interest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aaron’s Law is triggered
when a person violates </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Oregon</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">’s
Custodial Interference I statute by knowingly and wilfully “tak(ing),
entic(ing) or keep(ing) a (child) from the (child’s) lawful custodian or in
violation of a valid joint custody order.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A violation of Custodial
Interference I is a Class B felony, good for up to five years in prison, but
the statute is rarely enforced. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Historically, there is a
high degree of certitude that a parent or family member who abducts their own
child will suffer few consequences, and those only after court processes that
stretch out for years and drain every economic resource and emotional reservoir
available to the family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Aaron’s Law is designed to
change these circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My own four children
disappeared into </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Utah</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;"> in an abduction organized by Mormon officials in
three states, and despite an order for joint custody that had kept their lives
orderly and secure for five years prior to their abduction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">Aaron’s Law is designed to reach anyone,
any person or organization, who provides logistical, planning, financial or any
other support to the abduction of an </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">Oregon</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"> child, through a civil process.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">The civil suit empowers Kyron’s mother
to depose witnesses, and DeDe Spicher, who is not a family member, unrelated to
Kyron Horman in any way, connected only through Terri Horman, is about to
become a very public example of the power of Aaron’s Law.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">This is how Aaron’s Law will eventually
have a deterrent effect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">I hope that the principles of Aaron’s
Law will be enacted in every state, protecting every child in the nation.
Abducted children are very nearly always taken out of their home state, and
international abductions have been trending upwards for years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">If you participate in the abduction of
an </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">Oregon</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;"> child, be prepared to squirm and reach
for that Fifth Amendment. <u>Think about whether it is worth it before you act</u>.
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<i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">Aaron's
Law is waiting for you now.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Sean Aaron Cruz, serving as
Oregon State Senator Avel Louise Gordly’s chief of staff, led her 2005
workgroup on parental and family abductions, which culminated in the passage of
Senate Bill 1041 on a dramatic unanimous vote in the Oregon House of
Representatives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski signs SB 1041 “Aaron’s
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