First here at 5:00.
O'clock freedom for the man known
as the jogger ****** Richard
Gilmore is scheduled to walk out
of prison at the end of next week.
Thanks for joining us.
I'm Brittany folkers.
Gilmore will be assigned to transitional
housing in Northwest Portland,
so let's bring in Mike Benner.
Mike, at least one of Gilmore's
victims is sounding the alarm.
Yeah, that's right. Brittany.
Her name is Daniel Tudor,
and she is extremely concerned,
to say the least.
She believes Gilmore should.
Walk out of prison as a Level
3 high risk sex offender.
This means the community would be
notified of his exact whereabouts,
but instead Gilmore's being released
as a low risk offender so the
community will not get notifications
on where he's living after he
finishes with transitional housing
in the Old Town neighborhood.
Richard Gilmore confessed to attacking 9
girls and women back in the 70s and 80s,
but due to the statute of
limitations rule at the time,
Gilmore was convicted of
only one of those rapes,
the rape of a 13 year old girl in 1986.
Gilmore would go on to spend more
than three decades behind bars,
but come December 16th,
that's Friday of next week,
Gilmore will walk out of prison.
He'll do so as a low risk offender,
the state deciding that with the
help of a risk assessment tool.
Called Static 99 R,
it gauges the sexual recidivism rate
for prisoners convicted of sex crimes.
Gilmore's victim, Danielle Tudor,
says there's no way Gilmore
is a low risk offender.
She thinks he'll reoffend,
and that partly explains
why she lives out of state.
But she has plenty of family in Oregon
and they're taking precautions.
We spent this weekend putting up cameras,
ring doorbell, all sorts of other stuff.
And getting them a monitored security system.
Because I take that threat that seriously.
So, you know, we knew this day was coming,
but it is very surreal and it is very scary.
Alright, it's worth mentioning again.
Gilmore's release date is December 16th.
He is slated to be on active supervision
for at least three years. Brittany,
Mike, thank you.
As Postal Service is now offering
a $5000 reward in the search for
a man who attacked a mail carrier.
It happened last Wednesday in the
Overlook neighborhood in North Portland.
A homeowner and the mail carrier
were chasing after a package thief
when that thief pepper sprayed them.
Both are OK, but the thief got away.
They are about 5 foot nine with a slim build,
and we're wearing black clothing that day.
Anyone with information leading to arrest
and arrest is eligible for the reward.
Tonight, an update on Oregon's
new landmark gun control measure.
A federal judge could delay the
law enforcement permit requirement
for gun purchases by two months.
It's part of Measure 114,
which voters passed in November.
Evan Watson is here to explain.
And Evan both sides of the
lawsuit over these gun laws
are now asking for a delay.
Brittany, the Oregon Department of
Justice is now asking a federal judge
to delay this permitting process
because law enforcement agencies
simply just aren't ready for it.
As it stands, measure 114 is
set to take effect on Thursday.
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum
says a two-month delay would give
law enforcement agencies enough time
to get a fully functional permitting
system in place for gun purchases.
But law enforcement leaders like
Eugene Police Chief Chris Skinner say
there's a lot more that goes into this.
Skinner says municipalities still need
to work out the staffing, training,
how to provide firearm aptitude tests,
and how the permits would be
processed and reviewed.
Crucially,
Skinner says law enforcement agencies
need to create and vet a permit.
To purchase a gun that would
be uniform and used statewide.
When the December 8th deadline
was was communicated to us,
I think we we all collectively panicked
because as chiefs and as a chief
here in Eugene, this is about trying
to put together a really robust,
understandable, simple, consistent,
equitable process for people.
And we're just not in a space
where we're going to meet that
deadline on on December 8th,
which is this Thursday. The
Oregon Attorney General says other
parts of Measure 114 should take
effect as planned on Thursday,
including restrictions on large
capacity magazines and the requirement
of background checks before guns
can be transferred between people.
The federal judge plans to rule
on a lawsuit that could block
measure 114 before Thursday.
Along with that,
we expect the judge to approve
the request of both parties to
delay the permitting process.
But that order has not yet
been given just yet.
We'll let you know when we have that,
Brittany.
All
right, thanks, Evan.
Crews are making progress.
Cleaning up a landslide on Hwy.
30, But expect disruptions to continue.
The slide is about 20 miles
east of Astoria and shut down
a section of the roadway there.
Odot opened one lane over the weekend,
but the lane will only stay open at night.
During the day,
all lanes will be shut down between 8:00
AM and 4:00 PM so that the cleanup continue.
If you drive there when the lane is open,
be sure to watch out for flaggers
and expect delays.
A North Portland mom is trying
to get justice for her son.
It's been a year since 19 year old
Keon Howard was shot and killed
in the Bridgeton neighborhood.
Tyrese Brown says her son was on his
way to pick up his brother and got into
an argument with a group of people.
That's when they shot him.
Others argued he was the aggressor,
but police have not offered a clear
explanation of just what happened that night.
Brown says that she's frustrated with
the lack of arrests and progress.
She rallied with her support.
Group yesterday to bring attention
to the case. They made me angry.
And so I'm here because
I don't feel like
justice has been
served and I'm not going to fight.
I'm not going
to stop fighting until I
get justice for my son.
Helping her in that effort is Laurie Palmer.
Her son was shot and killed in 2015.
She started go get your child, a group
educating families about gun violence.
So what we need to focus on is healing.
We need healing. I'm still in trauma.
Everybody's in trauma.
Trauma's behind the gun and
it's in front of the gun.
We did reach out to police
for an update on the case,
but have not heard back yet.
All right, we want to take a moment to talk
to you about your cars extended warranty.
Yeah, that probably sounds familiar, right?
It's a line that you've likely
heard over the phone before,
or maybe you got a letter in
the mail telling you that your
coverage will soon expire.
Well, now the Oregon Department of
Justice is cracking down on a company
for what it calls deceptive advertising.
Kyle Oboshi is here.
And Kyle,
this all stems from consumer complaints.
Indeed, as part of a settlement with
the Oregon Department of Justice,
the company called Endurance Warranty
Services will be banned from.
Making unwanted sales calls in
Oregon for the next five years.
Additionally, Endurance will have to
pay a fine of nearly a half, $1,000,000.
According to investigators.
Endurance sent hundreds of
thousands of deceptive mailers
to Oregonians from 2016 to 2019.
The DOJ investigation found the company's
mailers contained multiple false claims.
For example, endurance pretended
to note when someone's car warranty
had expired or was about to expire.
In one case, Endurance told a Hillsborough
man that he was selected for this.
Suffer because of the make and
model of his vehicle.
Only problem,
the 76 year old has never owned a vehicle.
He doesn't drive.
He worried other seniors might be fooled.
Well, I just got
a bunch of these and I thought,
you know, if if I notice that
something looks really hinky,
I should tell somebody about it.
You know, if you see something,
say something.
During the DOJ investigation and Durance
stopped sending mailers to Better
Business Bureau has also had issues
with the company's advertising warning.
The mailers contained, quote,
aggressive and confusing language
that often intimidated consumers.
Alright, Kyle Oboshi, thank you.
A new audit of Oregon high
schools and their progress shows
graduation rates are improving,
but they're still lagging behind nationally.
The audit released today focused
on the high school success program
that was approved by voters in 2016.
The goal is to use funding to
focus on dropout prevention,
career and technical education,
and college opportunities in Washington.
They're looking for ways
to help students as well,
and this could involve a drastic change to
the traditional school schedule students.
Would still go to school for
the required 180 days a year,
but their breaks would be shorter
and more frequent.
The traditional summer break,
for example,
could be reduced to six weeks,
but in exchange students would
get multiple full weeks off at
several other points in the year.
The goal here is to reduce
the learning loss that happens
during a long summer vacation.
It's an idea that they're considering
in the Mount Vernon School District,
though it's still in the discussion phase.
I
would hope that if we think.
Before we say, gosh, this is
a great idea, or if we say,
gosh, this is a bad idea, I just want us
to be open to learn about the idea.
A Union spokesperson told our
sister station in Seattle, KING5,
that this could potentially help
with teacher burnout as well.
However, there are other obstacles
to work around like student
athletics and summer jobs.