News Digest:
Friday, July 18, 2008 10:23 AM PDT
GOOD AFTERNOON
IDAHO
Sheriff fires jail deputy over inmate visit
GOODING (AP) — A Gooding County Jail deputy has been fired after the deputy sneaked a visitor into a room after hours so the visitor could have physical contact with an inmate, Sheriff Shaun Gough says.
‘‘We don’t know sex happened,’’ Gough told The Times-News. ‘‘All we know is there was an unsupervised contact visit.’’
He said the area is under video surveillance but the lights were turned off. Gough declined to release the name of the deputy, who he said was a former Gooding County schoolmate of the inmate.
He also declined to say what day the incident occurred other than it was a recent Sunday.
Oregon university
advances Boise law school plans
BOISE (AP) — A private Lutheran school in Oregon says it has secured most of the startup funding needed to bring a law school to Idaho’s capital city as soon as next year.
Concordia University president Charles Schlimpert says the school will need between $7 million to $10 million in initial funding for the project.
Most of that money has been secured through private giving in the Boise area, Schlimpert says.
OREGON
Auditors give poor marks to Ore. state data center
SALEM (AP) — The state government’s $63 million center to consolidate and streamline computer operations is getting poor marks from state auditors.
The Oregon secretary of state’s office says the center isn’t saving money or managing computer operations more efficiently.
The auditors also said the center hasn’t made agency computer operations more secure from hackers, and it doesn’t have a working plan to deal with disasters such as an earthquake or attack.
