“The ODAA is leading the charge against SB 1008—as the Mercury reported last week, the association has been circulating a report that includes both questionable claims about Measure 11’s efficacy and sensitive information about individual defendants and victims. Its members are also disseminating the idea that SB 1008 could free every person currently incarcerated for a violent crime they committed as a minor, despite legislators’ insistence that SB 1008 wouldn’t be retroactive. In advancing this theory, ODAA members are using every available platform—from the House Judiciary Committee floor to Lars Larson’s ultra-conservative radio show—to pinpoint specific offenders’ names, and talk up the gruesome details of their crimes.“

Portland Mercury

April 29, 2019

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