But the mayor's office appears to have done most of its planned "vetting," the stated reason for the previous delays in finishing a process that began with a bold pronouncement from Adams after a summer surge in gang violence.
His office has a 20-page packet of draft ordinances, which I've managed to obtain an exclusive copy of, that spell out in detail his plans for youth curfews, penalties for failure to report gun theft and/or loss and carrying loaded guns in public, and the creation of gun hot-spot zones where anyone convicted (key word) of gun crimes would be banned.
The packet spends several pages explaining the city's legal rationale for the proposed ordinances, seeking to undercut claims by gun-rights advocates that state code preempts these kind of rules. Cities are not allowed to regulate matters of gun sales, ownership, and storage and transportation. The city points to Oregon codes that allow municipalities to regulate the possession of loaded guns in public, as well as how and where guns are firearms are discharged. The packet also defends the city's proposed rules as regulating people, not guns.
Adams and his staff previewed the rules Friday in a closed-door meeting with the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform, a group that has raised further questions about the proposals: specifically that they might lead to racial profiling and other civil liberties violations. Some members still have those concerns, even after the rules have been spelled out in more detail, and even after the mayor pointed out that convictions, not arrests, will be the litmus test for applying any exclusions or the curfew.
I'll break down each of the five proposals after the jump. (And I'll post digital copies as soon as they're available; more tweaking is possible.)