Oregon Gov. Kate Brown held a ceremonial signing of an invoice Thursday in honor of a college student killed by a campus security officer in Bend.
The new regulation, known as “Kaylee’s Law,” would require stricter vetting for those officials. Kaylee Sawyer turned 23 years old whilst she was killed in July 2016. The man convicted of her murder, Edwin Lara, changed into a campus safety shield at Central Oregon Community College.
According to police, Lara killed Sawyer after stealing her handbag. Sawyer lived in an apartment complicated near Central Oregon Community College, where Lara worked as a part-time safety defend.
Brown Thursday hosted the ceremony in Bend with different legislators and Sawyer’s circle of relatives individuals. The regulation, which turned into officially signed in May, would require stricter vetting for campus protection guards, inclusive of criminal background exams. It will even equip all security vehicles with GPS and recording devices.
Lara has obtained two existence sentences: one for Sawyer’s homicide and another for federal kidnapping and carjacking charges. According to law enforcement, Lara went on a violent three-day crime spree after Sawyer’s homicide, who says the spree spanned two states and included kidnapping and carjacking.
Brown and Sawyer’s circle of relatives spoke approximately the emotional journey to get this bill into regulation at some point on Thursday.
“Today is bittersweet,” Jamie Sawyer, Kaylee’s dad, said. “Never should I or might I have wanted to imagine walking through the previous few years as we’ve had, looking to stay a new ordinary within the wake of our daughter’s horrendous homicide and being allowed to alternate records due to that murder.”
FOX 12 spoke with students and a spokesperson at Portland State University in light of the new law.
The spokesperson says PSU has four campus public safety officers who would be impacted via this regulation, and it might have to adhere to whatever adjustments the law requires.
“For protection guards and on-campus, sure, I’m a supporter of elevated history assessments, extra generation to make sure that those humans are doing their process and now not harming others,” Peter Swisher, a PSU pupil, said.
“I sincerely think it’s an excellent concept, basically as it continues protection chargeable for what they do and ordinarily with the entirety occurring, with police violence, I assume it’s a truly excellent concept to in reality have a camera to see what they’re in reality doing and the way humans react,” Jennifer Servan, any other PSU pupil, stated.
PSU also has five sworn officials who go through all of the same necessities law enforcement go through; they could now not fall under the new law.
