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Show B4 TheSalt Lake Tribune UTAH Tuesday, January 30, 1996 Lawmaker Proposes Allowing Students to Drop Out at Age 14 YESTERDAY: The House passed a bill (HB111) to send $6 million to a housing trust fund that provides loans for developers of low-income housing. The Senate gave initial approval to a bill (SB56) to ation already egislation hn Frandsen irop out 0! teachers to » don't want to s Eskelsen. “The ross the state we're going them in amuch uote of the Day: the Republ right to take g with themin the give our sch al hos tage Stephenson. who also Legislature's Joint Educ pee ommittee headof the Utah xpayers ti ptions for f iptiv schoi aving be is sory age requirements only children | school. Current law requi board of ec The measure has yet to be signed to a committee tial hearing But Lily the as ion Association representing public-school teach Student Is Not a Truant @ Continued from B-1 verify his class schedule He asked me how old I was. He said. “How are you going to col lege when you're 17 Durar said. He said he explained. but the officer replied, “Oh. really?’ He didn’t sound convinced Duran said he considered just walking to the house and telling nis mother, but worried that with the camera crew there someone might think he was trving to make arunfor it Salt Lake City Police Depart ment spokesman Lt. Phil Kirk saidtheofficer chose not to knock on thedoorto verify the story because he was alone and did not know what he would face inside He also said suspected truants are routinely handcuffed Going inside a home. in an un controlled environment, that’s really too dangerous for us.” said. Kirk telephone call is a much better way to verify that. officer did that That being the Duran wonders why the officer fora call to be put through. In an ase. Offic may get help from state govern- rents. ment House Bill 111 passed 63to 10. Rep. Gerry A. Adair, R-Roy sponsor of HB111, said it would Kids are Sione students going to wake up and Hey. if I want to be here with my buddies. I'm going to have to start toeing the line he says East High, who explained the sched ule. Paloni then drove Duran back home. There have been similar instances. but Duran’s got theattention of the Utah chapterof the American Civil Liberties Union The Utah House of Representatives passedabill Monday to ap. propriate $6 millionto thestate's housing trust fund — almost dou- ble the previous annual appropri- taken ing. we would not bedoingourjob if we did not challenge any suspicion of violations of this young man’s civil liberties.” Paloni took Duran to the truancy detention center at Horizonte school and said execu- tive director Carol Gnade It does raise some concerns and questions about civil liber- ties, It’s very confusing, and you can call five different lawyers and get five different answers into custody by Salt Lake City School District. Peterson said the girls’ bags were searched, they were not allowed to phonetheir parents and they were quizzed about drugs andta toos They were terrified, in tears. ic >» girls were taken to the same truancy center as Duran Several hourslater, they wereal lowedto call their parents. Peterson said truant officers learned then that the detention hadbeen a mistake They didn’t see themshoplift ing. they didn't see them smoking ortaking drugs or harassing anybody or line the right to accost someone absent pickedup. The Provo families and the Durans want anapology KUTV News, agreed that run \ police officer does not have some suspicion, reasonable suspicion, that something bad has oc- curred or this person has done he said g Truancy trampling on ties individual liber off It is a tradition at Christmassaid Diane Peterson, moth- er of one of the teens. “We make sure that the kids have their schoolwork done ahead of time ve an Ten minutes afte them off at the m excuse \\ Ate of the bottomrung of the economie ladder bill, which passed 67-2 310.000 To get the money, a county must spend or be obligated to spendmorethan 10 timesits indigent defense budget County officials would then Garfield County Attorney Wal lace Lee said the county mayhave to ask the state for more moneyif defense costs go even higheror if the case is appealed. But Hatch’s bill is a positive start, he said. ‘It's something that we have been praying for,” Lee said. “It would be a real godsend to us There's no way we could handle this caseif it wasn’t for help from the state North Star program leaders andstaffers have beenaccusedof neglecting 16-year-old Aaron Ba. con's deteriorating medical condi tion and depriving himof shelter clothing. food and water After a month in North Star's rigorous hiking andsurvival skills program designed to straighten out waywardyouths, the Phoenix boycollapsed anddiedof a peptic ulcer March 31, 1994, near Esca lante. The case is scheduled togo tc trial April 29 to May17, Leesaid Rep. Bill Hickman, R-St George, spokein favor ofthebill which hesaid is necessaryto set up a “safety net” to keep from upsetting a county's financia base. This situation that wehave ir Garfield Countyis very difficult but you have to understandit’s not unique to Garfield County he said. “This occurs quite fre quently andis a real burdento these rural counties.” Proposal Toughens Penalties on Foulmouthed Schoolchildren THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A bill before the Utah House would allow schools to suspend students whoutter “foul, profane or abusive language Minority Leader Scott Howell andy, is sponsoringthebill be- fourth-grader who continually whether the punishment in How uses the ‘F’ word and other ob- ell’s bill addresses the underlying scene language in the classroom.’ Senate Bill 33 has passed the problem. A better solution, she Senate and has been forwardedto the House for consideration Merilee Ter who teaches a cause of problems his aunt has combinedfourth- and fifth-grade faced as a public schoolteacher. “Essentially, students can say whatever they want.” he said Myaunt is at wit’s end with a class at Maeser Elementaryin the ProvoSchool District, agrees that respect for teachershasdeclined Even so, Terry questions 0 set high expectationsin jassroom. Howell's bill would put the use of profane language by students onpar withwillful destruction of school property, possession, con trol or use of analcoholic bever age and behavior which poses a threat to students orstaff. HONOR CARRIERS FOR THE MONTH aid Peterson. “It was sim ply because they were teen-agers fout] on a school day they were from she dropped they were mistake. Station manager Con Psarras said the news crew did not know Duran had not been charged or foundguilty of truancy DADRA RARRAR RRA WINDSHIELDI* THATS RIGHT... 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Art's insights, based on his ‘own struggles, will help you overcome iNDIN \C \ \N ROL men allow “more people to grab hold His would give money to counties with an annual budget for indigent defense costs of at least Attorney General's Office for the amount needed ning the footage of Ricky was a there without That was the conclusion of three Provo families whose daughters were detained on an outing to Salt Lake's Crossroads Mall on a December school day All three girls, age 15. hadtheir parents’ permi: sion to take a day and we school The trust fund is used for low submit a written request to the doing anything out of For Salt Lake attorney Brian Barnard there is only one answer. FEELING — FRAZZLED? P\ security guards who work with police and y servicethat the police department is perform time.” case ations putes the claim that changing the age limit will encourage to drop out so the didn't radio a dispatcher and ask By Becki Lesser HE TRIBUNE st Utahns overwhelmed by the Actually, this bill is a direct re- sult of the NorthStar trial in Garfield County Hatch said. “I think if Garfield County does not get somehelp fromthestate, it will virtually bankrupt the coun- House OKs Funds to House Poor While we feel that this is an that he had a legitimate reason to be on the street. He told the offi cer that his mother, inside the house only a few feet away. could tab interest loans to housing developers who agree to set limits on important Duransaid hetried to explain own. The county must pick up the lack of affordable housing soon contacted his adviser at Held ByPolice who are unable to pay ontheir ith youths on the streets instead if in school But Stephenson said he dis 1, president of Utah Ec Five separate attorneys are to be appointed for the defendants Utah On Line. offers bills. The address is www. sltrib.com law-enforcementcosts n 18 to attend grantedby a local tion could increase the number of students dropping of school. potentiz school, unless a special release is Lake Tribune's World Wide Website shenson’s bill said the bill six and 14 legally have youths younger difficult to y and costs of an Arizona boy enrolled in the southern Utah wilderness therapy program complete access to the Legisl: slature, including links to thefull text of n the schoo analysts say it t the effec whoinsist they need mor ofclassroomdiscipline The bill would change compu The Salt that those kids coddled and allowed t $400,000 to defend North Star staffers, charged in the death of eee (B}—vtah Line s Eske Were ought to Garfield County. for instance, is looking at costs of at least — Rep. Judy Ann Buffmire, D: alt Lake City, on legislation to provide loans to builders of low-income housing. have they handle dis such as alter and home-tutor arrangem As ciation. says he is SB81 at the request of Office $200,000. The moneythen would be disbursed to counties with excessive indigent defense costs. y had the oppo tunity to go out walki ng with some home If you do he necessity of this bill, I suggest you do nue later on ‘You d Rep. Tom Hatch. R-Panguitch is sponsoring the measure that wouldgive the Attorney General's VYVVVVYVVVYVYYVY. n is to Tre KKAARAAK The inter the school to say. can charge customers who bounce a check. 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