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Oregon
Schools
to
Pay
Students
for
Anonymous
Tips
2/19/99
A new program in Portland,
Oregon school districts rewards students who inform on their classmates.
Campus Crime Stoppers, a spin-off of the Crime Stoppers programs operating
around the world, provides students with a hotline to call school police,
and offers kids up to $1,000 for anonymous tips about classmates involved
with drugs, weapons, vandalism, or other criminal activity.
Sergeant Larry Linne, the
Portland school police officer in charge of the program, told the Oregonian
newspaper that district standards will insure that students' Fourth Amendment
rights are not violated, but some students are wary of a program they say
could turn classmates into narcs and snitches. "I don't trust the
authorities," one 17-year-old told the paper. "It depends on if someone
got hurt or not."
Crime Stoppers International
is online at http://www.c-s-i.org.
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Issue #79, 2/19/99
Announcements | Less Than Three Weeks Left to Defeat "Know Your Customer" Rules! | ABA to Congress: Stop Federalizing Crime | Connecticut Addressing Racial Disparities in Drug Enforcement, Sentencing | US Customs Service Report Acknowledges Corruption | Man Shot Dead in Home by Police, Small Amount of Marijuana Found | Medical Marijuana Opponents Mount Challenges in Oregon, Washington | Hemp Beer Served on Air Force One | Oregon Schools to Pay Students for Anonymous Tips | RALLY: Mothers in Prison, Children in Crisis, NYC, May 9 | Editorial: Another Isolated Incident
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