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Wilsonville explores administrative warrants and pilot graffiti-abatement programs to help owners of vandalized private property
Summary
City staff recommended drafting a municipal administrative-warrant code to give city employees a local tool for accessing private property in urgent public-safety or inspection situations, and proposed low-cost graffiti-abatement options (subsidies, supply kits, volunteer crews) with a pilot approach to any reward program.
City staff updated the council Sept. 15 on two public-safety strategies: whether to adopt a municipal administrative-warrant process for city employees and how to expand graffiti-abatement support for private property owners.
City Attorney Amanda Veil Hinman and law clerk Hannah Young summarized an interdepartmental review that found Clackamas County already uses a circuit-court affidavit-and-judicial-approval process for law-enforcement warrants (used for RV evictions and similar enforcement). "Our research and most primarily our discussions with law enforcement have shown that there's no need for the city to adopt a similar process quite like this," Hinman said, because county law enforcement already has that toolkit. But staff identified a code gap: city employees currently lack an administrative-warrant mechanism for non-law-enforcement reasons—such as building inspections or emergent hazardous…
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