March 17, 2010 10:36 am
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 Gold Beach Police Officer Jeff Wood and his fellow officers will soon wear digital cameras on their uniforms. Photo by Val Corley
Gold Beach police will soon have video cameras attached to their shirts.
The City Council last week approved using a grant from their
insurance carrier, CityCounty Insurance Services (CIS), to purchase a
recorder for each officer.
“When I first presented this to CIS, the agent who came here was so
thrilled he called for additional information,” Police Chief P.J. Janik
told the council.
A few days later, Janik said the insurance company told him it was a
great tool for not only Gold Beach officers, but for other police
agencies.
“Our insurance company was thrilled with it and was willing to buy it,” Janik said.
“The technology is so new,” Janik said. “It started two months ago.
We were with an ODOT enforcement vendor, trying to get me up to speed
on new products.”
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March 17, 2010 10:32 am
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 Gary Douglas
Curry County Sheriff John Bishop isn’t happy with at least one
condition of Caughey’s release – that he’s classified as a sex
offender, not a predatory sex offender, which limits what the public
can be told.
Caughey has been convicted three times for kidnapping or assault against young women.
“My beef is not that he’s been paroled; it’s that he’s not listed as
a predatory sex offender,” Bishop said Monday. “That ties our hands on
what we can do to notify the public and protect them.”
According to state law, authorities can release more information
about a predatory sex offender, such as specific street address and
what kind of car he drives, than that of a non-predatory sex offender.
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