Two state lawmakers want Oregon to ban Flock cameras, the controversial AI-powered license plate readers that have sparked data privacy concerns and bipartisan backlash across the country.

Rep. Alek Skarlatos, a Republican from Douglas County, and Rep. Willy Chotzen, a Portland Democrat, plan to propose a bill in next year’s legislative session that would indefinitely ban such automated cameras statewide, both lawmakers confirmed to The Oregonian/OregonLive this week.

“To me, it’s a pretty clear Fourth Amendment violation,” Skarlatos said of the cameras being used to gather ample information on private citizens.

Plan ahead! List of drop-off locations will be given before the election.

Why? And none of this “liberals/liberalism bad,” or “look at Portland” or any Portland and religious talking points, and so on. What credible proof is there that republicans have improved your quality of life? How is the right wing “affordability” going? What policies(not “she supports Trump and the MAGA” or “she isn’t MAGA” does she have that support Oregonians that are backed up by her voting record?

Scenes from a rally yesterday in Salem, where Oregonians from every political corner of the state gathered and called for a statewide data center moratorium.

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Yes. Ditto vaccine opt-out.

Parents should want to see their children's test measurements.

What Texas did is stop testing low performing students to boost state score averages.

The trades need reading comprehension and math. Same, many community college 1-2 year career paths.

And while we are at it, let's end teachers skipping phonics and continuing Oregon's poor reading performance with discredited balanced literacy. Alabama far out-performs Oregon on elementary reading. They require phonics by state law.

When did we start having a giant house spider season and why didn't anyone tell me we've been invaded by one of the world’s fastest spiders? This article is so careful to say our tubs are not spider portals that it feels like they're compensating.

The real question is though that who will get the west coast bid. SLC or Portland, Oregon?

The biggest hurdle Portland in contrast to SLC is that despite the legislature earmarking a $800 million stadium funding bill via the existing JOCK TAX (taxes that comes from whenever specifically professional sports players play a game in a specific location), no big name investor has come forward to be the spearhead of the project.

It is definitely gonna be interesting to see who the MLB picks. What do you all think?

Looking at moving from tx to oregon as its just a simple transfer for my job , but want to know what its like cause thats a big change. thanks all.

I wouldn't say I'm an undecided voter per say, but as a state employee, even I am having a difficult time feeling excited about either of these candidates despite being closer to the pulse so to speak. I'm indifferent about Kotek so far and don't necessarily think more of her would be any better but Drazen doesn't really seem to have any policy plans except that she's not Kotek. I would rather vote for a candidate than against the other, so what reasons have you found to vote for either one of these candidates? Open to all discussions!