Newberg City Council considering daytime curfew. You can help.

Newberg City Council is considering enacting a daytime curfew at their meeting tonight (7 p.m. Monday, October 20, 2008). Daytime curfews allow police officers to stop and question school-aged children who are in public places during school hours. This, of course, is problematic for homeschool students who might be walking to the library (or George Fox University in Newberg), on their way to a job or otherwise out in public without a parent during school hours.

Here’s how you can help:

1. Pray for the meeting tonight and the home educators who will be presenting testimony.

2. If you live in the Newberg-Dundee area or come into Newberg routinely during school hours, please attend the meeting Monday October 20th at 7 p.m. at the Newberg Public Safety Building, 401 E. Third Street, Newberg even if you don’t plan on giving testimony.

3. If you live in one of the cities in Oregon which currently have daytime curfews and if your family has been negatively impacted by the curfew, please e-mail April McGowan at april.mcgowan@gmail.com before 5 p.m. with a paragraph or two on what happened to your family.

Cities in Oregon which have daytime (school hours) curfews:

Beaverton
Eugene
Keizer
McMinnville
Pendleton
Portland
Salem
Springfield

If you know of other cities in Oregon which have daytime curfews, please let me know at karmans@oceanetwork.org.

Yours for freedom,
Dorothy Karman
OCEANetwork