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What: Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski will sign into law Senate Bill 240, which creates the Criminal Justice Policy Research Institute at Portland State University, and will give brief remarks. Also presenting will be Senator Ginny Burdick (D- Portland) and Representative Wayne Krieger (R- Gold Beach), who both supported this legislation, as well as PSU President Daniel O. Bernstine and Craig Prins, executive director of the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.

When: 9 a.m., Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Where: Parson’s Gallery, Second Floor, Urban and Public Affairs Building (506 SW Mill), Portland State University

Contact: For more information on the Criminal Justice Policy Research Institute, please contact Claudia Black, associate director, at 503-725-5139 or claudiab@pdx.edu. For more information on the event, please contact Erin Malecha Arias at 503-725-8794.

Background: The Criminal Justice Policy Research Institute is a multi-disciplinary research unit serving the entire PSU community, and housed in Mark O. Hatfield’s School of Government’s Division of Criminology and Criminal Justice. It is designed to provide policy makers throughout the state of Oregon with a forum in which issues of policy and practice may be explored, using objective, performance-based criteria. It is also designed to bring together the varied resources of Portland State University and coordinate those resources with other institutions of higher education to address issues emanating from the justice community. For more information, visit http://www.hatfieldschool.pdx.edu/programs/cjpri.php.

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