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1 week ago | salemreporter.com | Les Zaitz

A Keizer woman who lived in fear for years over manipulated internet images of her and her daughter has now helped establish a new crime in Oregon. Legislation making it illegal to disseminate “a digitally created, manipulated or altered depiction that is reasonably realistic” is now awaiting signature by Gov. Tina Kotek. House Bill 2299 passed the House 56-0 and cleared the Senate on May 14 by a 30-0 vote. “This is the mission I was put here to do,” said Kristi George, a retired banker from Keizer.

1 week ago | keizertimes.com | Les Zaitz

A Keizer woman who lived in fear for years over manipulated internet images of her and her daughter has now helped establish a new crime in Oregon. Legislation making it illegal to disseminate “a digitally created, manipulated or altered depiction that is reasonably realistic” is now awaiting signature by Gov. Tina Kotek. House Bill 2299 passed the House 56-0 and cleared the Senate on May 14 by a 30-0 vote. “This is the mission I was put here to do,” said Kristi George, a retired banker from Keizer.

1 week ago | keizertimes.com | Les Zaitz

Keizer is considering loosening its belt to allow for more homes and more growth. City officials want to hear what citizens think about their community’s future. What is being billed as a “Community Listening Session” is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 27, at the Keizer Event Center. “Share your vision for Keizer’s future,” the city says in its meeting announcement.

2 weeks ago | salemreporter.com | Les Zaitz

In a Marion County courtroom, grieving relatives observed as justice finally arrived for Caden Berry. Eight years had passed since the 12-year-old was killed in the Keizer apartment he shared with his mother. She was his killer. Since then, Amy M. Robertson has spent most of her life committed to the Oregon State Hospital. She has been evaluated by a stream of psychiatrists. And on May 7, a state judge concluded Robertson was insane when she strangled her son.

2 weeks ago | malheurenterprise.com | Les Zaitz

PROTECT OREGON NOW PRESS RELEASEOntario — Last week, U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz voted to cut Medicaid in the Congressional Energy and Commerce Committee, but Oregonians in his district have been calling and writing to him asking him to stand up for them and not for billionaires when the bill comes up for a final vote. The budget bill that Congressional Republicans are rushing through the reconciliation process would cut an estimated $715 billion from Medicaid over the next decade.