CITY OF OAK HARBOR: “The goals of the SODA (Stay Out of Designated Area Ordinance) are to reduce repeat criminal behavior, increase public and business safety, provide an enforceable tool for courts and police, and encourage rehabilitation outside the target zone,” Police Chief Tony Slowik.
CITY OF OAK HARBOR: The Oak Harbor Police Community Advisory Board meeting discussed the new chronic nuisance and “stay out of designated area” ordinances, potential impacts on crime and public safety, community feedback, future recruitment, upcoming presentations, and the city’s new training facility.
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: It would allow judges to impose conditions on people convicted of drug crimes that bans them from entering the zone.
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: Police officers from across the region will be able to travel to Whidbey Island during damp, dark winters to practice their gun skills safely indoors.
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: Some local leaders proposed responses to perceived problems associated with the nonprofit.
CITY OF OAK HARBOR: The City and Task Force do not have to hold public meetings like this one, but we are choosing to, because we believe you deserve to hear updates directly from us, not through rumors or assumptions. – Mayor Ronnie Wright
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: A couple of Whidbey leaders are criticizing an Island County program that provides “safer smoking kits” to drug users, though the future of the grant-funded practice remains undecided.
WHIDBEY NEWS-TIMES: Oak Harbor hopes to secure $1 million in state funding to purchase a building that would house a training facility for first responders in the Northern Puget Sound area.
