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Community => Advocacy, Agencies, Access => Topic started by: Skillet on March 15, 2022, 07:25:09 PM

Title: Oregon getting serious about prosecuting poachers
Post by: Skillet on March 15, 2022, 07:25:09 PM: https://www.dfw.state.or.us/news/2022/03_Mar/031422.asp (https://www.dfw.state.or.us/news/2022/03_Mar/031422.asp)

SALEM, Ore. —Poachers beware, there is a new force in the courts: An anti-poaching special prosecutor. Jay D. Hall, hired last month as a new Assistant Attorney General with the Oregon Department of Justice, is serious about prosecuting fish and wildlife crimes.
Title: Re: Oregon getting serious about prosecuting poachers
Post by: MtnMuley on March 15, 2022, 07:26:06 PM: Awesome. Wonder if he can work the state to the north too?
Title: Re: Oregon getting serious about prosecuting poachers
Post by: bigtex on March 15, 2022, 07:31:18 PM: Quote from: MtnMuley on March 15, 2022, 07:26:06 PM
Awesome. Wonder if he can work the state to the north too?
Inslee requested and the legislature passed a budget last week which will fund several Assistant Attorney General positions in WA for the state AG's Office to prosecute some poaching cases in-lieu of county prosecutors.
Title: Re: Oregon getting serious about prosecuting poachers
Post by: MtnMuley on March 15, 2022, 07:39:57 PM: Great news. Let's hope we get a real go-getter.
Title: Re: Oregon getting serious about prosecuting poachers
Post by: huntnnw on March 15, 2022, 10:11:13 PM: but we will support drugs and crime of all sort. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Oregon getting serious about prosecuting poachers
Post by: M_ray on March 16, 2022, 06:52:57 AM: Quote from: huntnnw on March 15, 2022, 10:11:13 PM
but we will support drugs and crime of all sort. :rolleyes:

:yeah:
Yep, it’s good news but they have no interest in prosecuting skinny jean rioters :rolleyes: