| Show iW mtrwffl j&fik&mwmwm 6A Friday AmNlg Nfc National April 30 1999 members had ever been in favor Brigham of the ordinance None of the speakers at the public hearing was either But said each council member something needs to be done From 1A On second offense the parent would receive an infraction citation And on third offense the Lt Gary Gerbich of the Brigham City Police Department told the crowd that from August to April 27 this year during school hours there were 32 juvenile arrests in Brigham City In addition there were 72 other times a police officer contacted a juvenile committing a criminal act and reported it par- ent could be charged with a Class C misdemeanor which carries up to a S750 fine or 90 days in jail 1 The Brigham City Youth Commission a group of high school students who meet to advise the mayor on youth issues generated the idea for a truancy ordinance From there Police Chief Jim Paine worked with other police chiefs and the city attorney to draw up the proposed ordinance “That doesn’t count all the times we didn't do a report or notify anyone” he said “Two hundred to 300 students missed and crimes occurred This would just give us a tool to keep them where they belong” Paine said the Brigham City ordinance was a mix of the South Ogden ordinance which holds parents entirely responsible and the Logan ordinance which faults only the children Objectors called the proposed ordinance one of the stages toward a “police state" Jim Dietz said it violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the US Constitution After the public hearing Councilman Jim Davis said he didn’t think any of the council March From 1A of evil that caused the Holocaust in the people doing ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia and in the two young men who terrorized their school in Littleton Colo They were able to distance themselves from their victims making them the "other” “It allows kids to use the punishment toward the parent” Jeremy Slater said he had been a troubled teen He opposed the ordinance saying the punishments for the parents wouldn’t change much “My mom and dad couldn’t have done one thing different to keep me in school My friends were it” Box Elder Fligh School Principal Earl Swenson said earlier Thursday that his concern is that truancy is directly related to dropout rates He said many parents need to be more responsive Brad Jeppsen a junior at Box Elder High said Thursday afternoon that he has skipped class before to go get doughnuts But if his parents knew and especially if they were punished lor his truancy he said he would quit in a second "I would be I wouldn’t be able to drive would just stop slulfing” I After every person at the public hearing who wanted to speak had their chance Mayor David Kano urged the council to delay action on the ordinance He suggested it be redesigned by the Youth Commission working with the school district and the youth city council Council member Lou Ann Christensen said that though the youth commission has worked on the issue for several months they should go back and work in conjunction with other groups Swenson who is involved in the youth commission said he would have liked to see the action move along more quickly but he is sure they will develop a new ordinance “We need this right It’s good to try and work on it until we have it right” You can reach reporter Melisa Ann Wilson at 625-423- 3 or hate especially in light of the tragedy in the schools in the last two years” he said “Kids are struggling to understand where this hate comes from” Patrick Butler an AP American history teacher at Ogden High School said his students want to answer that question too and that’s why they marched Thursday The issue of hate has hit close to home for one Ogden High student Allan Russell said he marched because he lost his grandmother in the Holocaust and a foreign exchange student he knew from Albania died last December when he went home to r US jets hit northern Iraqi defense sites Tiie Associated in trouble I know via and looking at Littleton the ability to commit that kind of evil is a part of human nature” she said after her lecture “The question is when is it unleashed?” “There’s a real desire on the part of students to understand “Looking at Germany looking at Rwanda looking at Yugosla Eliot King said students might try to use the ordinance to get back at their parents Standard-Examine- ANKARA Turkey - 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