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Sponsor, local officials and school-board members urge felony-level protection for threats to public officials
Summary
Sen. James Ivory Manning Jr. and a panel of local officials and school-board members told the House Committee on Rules that Senate Bill 15 30 would close gaps that leave volunteer public officials exposed to credible threats; opponents warned constitutional and effectiveness concerns. The bill previously passed the Senate 18-11.
Senator James Ivory Manning Jr., sponsor of Senate Bill 15 30, told the House Committee on Rules that the bill would extend aggravated-harassment protections to public officials who receive telephonic, electronic or written threats intended to cause alarm because of their official duties. Manning recounted a bomb threat against his home and other credible threats to elected officials and volunteers, and urged the committee to treat severe targeted threats as felonious conduct rather than misdemeanors.
Tisha, the committee analyst, summarized the measure as taking the threatening subset from the harassment statute and moving it into ORS 166.07 (aggravated harassment) where a…
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