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B2 Casper Star-Tribune WYOMING AND THE WEST Thursday, April 23, 1998 Domestic violence conference Police action often hinges on attack ANGELL Continued from 'Wyoming' bachelor's degree in journalism and communications from Washington State University. He and his wife Mary live in Cheyenne with their one-year-old daughter, Amanda. Peter Mattiace, chief of the AP's Denver bureau, said Tuesday the news organization has begun a search of bureaus across the country and expects to hire a replacement for An-gell in about three weeks. "We're going to miss Jim An-gell to the AP he was Mr. Wyoming," Mattiace said.

"Hut in a way he's going to keep serving members and the AP," Sometimes those who request protection orders will do so as a way to get their ex-partners jailed, noted Rawlins police investigator Chuck Davidson. They'll get the order signed, call the respondent and then call the police, alleging a violation. What does Reynolds do in those instances? "First of all, it's not her order, it's the court's order," he said, and violation of that order will result in an arrest. "Now, will it mitigate what happens to him (in terms of sentencing)? Of course it should." Speaker: By DEIRDRE STOELZLE Star-Tribune staff writer JACKSON This is what you tell the police: You've taken 25 vaguely threatening phone calls from your ex, who's camped outside your workplace and has left you cryptic notes and solicited our friends to convey his messages. This is what the police probably tell you, depending on the laws in your state: We'll go talk to him, but we can't arrest him until he attacks you.

That scenario has been typical of stalking cases, acknowledged George Wattendorf, a police lieutenant and attorney from the Dover, N.H., Police Department. Wattendorf spoke here Wednesday at Teton County's Community Safety Network conference on domestic violence, which continues through the week. court not a criminal act, as it is in Wyoming, Wattendorf said. But that doesn't mean arrests are always made when a violation occurs here, audience members acknowledged. And it also doesn't mean that a protection order issued by one county or state court will necessarily be enforced anywhere else, although under federal law such orders are like drivers licenses and are good everywhere, he said.

An example given by another conference speaker, Chief Judge Vic Reynolds of the Cobb County, Magistrate Court, clearly defines the problem: A woman obtains a protection order against her estranged husband and leaves town. About 100 miles down the road she realizes the man is following her, but it's too late: he runs her off the road. She grabs her phone, dials Holocaust remembered in Cheyenne 911, and when the police arrive, she shows them her protection order. They tell her she'd probably be best served by law enforcement in the county in which the order originated, and they'll detain her estranged husband for 20 minutes, effectively giving her a head start. Hearing about the case, Reynolds said he was determined to become more proactive in such domestic violence incidents.

He said he would start by ensuring those court orders were enforced everywhere. In Georgia, however, violations of such orders are considered contemptuous but not criminal acts, unless the violation is of a stipulation that the respondent be evicted from the residence, Reynolds said. Nonetheless, he jails the violators in contempt. Enzi withdraws juvenile justice bill support CHEYENNE (AP) U.S. Sen.

Mike Enzi has withdrawn his support for a juvenile justice bill that he said infringes on firearms ownership rights. The proposal is designed to combat violent juvenile crime, but Erizi, said it also contains language that would hurt gun owners and small business owners. Enzi said he spent several months working to change the bill's wording, but feels that it still interferes with Second Amendment rights. "No one is able to escape the negative effects of crime and we need tougher laws to deal with increasingly younger violent criminals, but these laws must respect the constitutional rights of gun owners," he said. U.S.

Sen. Craig Thomas, withdrew himself as a co-sponsor of the Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Act citing similar concerns in Stalking laws have the potential of preventing homicides that can and do evolve from simple acts of domestic terrorism, such as those described in stalking situations, Wattendorf said. But if stalking is not as easily proven as, say, telephone harassment, then such a lesser charge should be pursued, he said. Similarly, "we prefer charging a protection order violation over (pursuit) of a stalking charge why not make it simple and clean? That's going to give you an opportunity to intervene at a much earlier point." Enforcement of protection orders, including stalking orders, are an "Achilles heel," he said. It's hard for police to know what to do, for example, when they learn a protection or restraining order has been violated.

In some states, a violation is an act of contempt against the 'We are gathered to be sure that the lessons of the Hnloraust are still remembered, still taught, still a reminder of what our future should not GOV. JIM GERINGER said, opens with a quote from Elie Wiesel questioning how people tell children about the Holocaust the murder of 6 million Jews during World War II. In the case of the Internet site, Geringer said, "it's the children who are telling the children reported parks, on the Platte River Parkway and especially at the soccer field complex have prompted numerous complaints, Wnuk said. People have reported unleashed dogs attacking other dogs, and unleashed dogs threatening people, she said. City officials also have re- By the Star-Tribune staff CHEYENNE The purpose of the annual memorial of the victims of the Holocaust is not only to honor the dead but to remind people to be alert so it cannot happen again, speakers said here Tuesday.

"Apathy is an accomplice to evil," said Cantor Uri Neil, who opened the ceremony at the Capitol Building attended by about 70 people He pointed out that genocide still is going on in Bosnia and Yugoslavia. "We haven't learned the lesson very well," he said. Gov. Jim Geringer said he found an award-winning Web site created by students on the Internet that memorialized the Holocaust. The students' presentation, he PETS: Dog attacks Continued from 'Casper Area' citations," she said in a news release.

A city ordinance defines a dog at large as not being under physical restraint by an owner agent, Wnuk said. This spring, the numbers of dogs running unleashed in city SUBARU TheBeautyofAllWheelDrivi HATHAWAY Continued from 'Wyoming' The Building Commission voted to authorize spending the $250,000 from the Department of Health budget to remodel the old cafeteria into office buildings. Secretary of State Diana Ohman questioned how Department of Health Director Don Rol-ston could find that much money in the department's budget and suggested the idea was to spend the money rather than returning it to the state's General Fund. Rolston said the excess money came from the department's A history of the Beginning in 1994, the Legislature appropriated $8.4 million for a new state lab at Laramie for the Departments of Agriculture, Environmental Quality and Health. The action was in response to demands by city fire officials to move the labs from the fifth and top floor of the Hathaway Building in the state Capitol complex.

The city officials said the labs were a safety problem because of the chemicals stored there and never should have been located on the top floor. After a series of delays, the bids for the new state lab at Laramie came in too high last year. The state Building Commission, composed of the governor and the other four elected state officials, killed the plan to locate the labs at Laramie Instead, the commission left the labs for the Departments of Environmental Quality and Health on 399 99 children who are the great grandchildren of the survivors of the Holocaust of World War II." Adolph Hitler's regime did not take place suddenly, as a single event, Geringer said. "The German people and their public institutions slipped slowly but steadily into accepting, while not preventing, crimes against Jewish people," he said. Newspapers, churches, civic groups and individual citizens eacn, contributed to the Holocaust "by their silence or by ignoring the blatant disregard for human life," Geringer said.

"We are gathered today for more than a memorial," he said. "We are gathered to be sure that the lessons of the Holocaust are still remembered, still taught, still a reminder of what our future should not be." ceived complaints about pet owners not cleaning up after their dogs, Wnuk said. "Citations will also be issued to any dog handler in the parks that do not clean up after their animal." The same rules about leashes and feces also apply to cats and other pets, Wnuk said. SUBARU m-mm DIME DAYS NO PAYMENTS. NO INTEREST.

state General Fund appropriation and was the result of sound financial management. "We've been fighting the lab for years," Rolston said. "Now we've finally gotten to the point where the Legislature said 'We will not appropriate any money for the Hathaway Rolston said his motive was not just to spend the money so it wouldn't revert to the General Fund but to do something about the state lab problem. Gov. Jim Geringer agreed, saying the $250,000 came from Department "of Health programs that still operate.

Hathaway Building the fifth floor of the Hathaway Building. Sometime during this period, the state made improvements to the labs on the fifth floor of the Hathaway Building and reduced the quantity of chemicals stored there. In October 1997 Cheyenne Fire Chief Dennis Piester told the Joint Appropriations Committee that the Hathaway Building is a fire hazard regardless of what the state does with the laboratories. In January this year, the state Building Commission made the Hathaway Building renovation its top priority for legislative action. But the Joint Appropriations Committee, short of money and frustrated over the different reports it had received about the labs and the Hathaway Building over the years, de-appropriated the $8.4 million and put the money into a couple of state accounts.

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