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HEATHERHOELSCHER-DAILYNEWS Rape Crisis Prevention and Awareness expanded their facility to allow for more office space, a waiting room and reception area. Pictured here is the new entrance to the building located in the back right corner of the DMV parking lot. a husband, wife, children, parents and friends. The Rape Crisis organi- zation offers counseling ser- vices, where the focus is on re-empowering survivors again as Gould said sexual assault is all about someone taking power away from an individual. The organization also of- fers advocacy and accompa- niment to its clients by go- ing with a survivor to the hospital if testing is needed or going with them when conducting interviews with law enforcement agencies to provide a more comfort- able environment. The ribbon cutting will be the organization's kick- off event to Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April. Teal ribbons will be given out at the new expanded of- fice throughout the month and tied around trees in downtown Red Bluff to show support of the aware- ness campaign. The office will host a clothes line art project throughout April during of- fice hours where survivors can come and draw what sexual assault means to them on shirts with differ- ent colors that represent the different types of sexual as- saults. All art supplies and shirts are provided by the Rape Crisis organizers. The shirts will then be displayed throughout the office. There is a variety of events throughout the month of April to bring awareness to the commu- nity, to educate the commu- nity about rape culture and to get the word out about this organization where a survivor can have a place to turn to for help anytime, Gould said. The RCIP will be having an Open Eyes Open Hearts celebrity dinner at the Pal- omino Room from 6 to 7:30 p.m. April 6. Guests are en- couraged to make reserva- tions. Twenty-five percent of the proceeds will be do- nated to RCIP when items are ordered off the menu. Guest servers will in- clude Red Bluff Police De- partment Chief Kyle Sand- ers, Tehama County Sher- iff's Office Lt. Dave Greer, California Highway Patrol Capt. Lou Aviles and Red Bluff Mayor Gary Jones, among others. On April 26, it's Denim Days, an international day where everyone is encour- aged to wear jeans after a judge in Italy released a man for rape because he thought the victim must have assisted since her jeans were tight and she had to help take them off, Gould said. The RCIP is encouraging all businesses to allow em- ployees to wear jeans that day. Also on April 26 is a free showing of a documentary at the State Theatre about sexual assault at univer- sities titled "The Hunting Ground." RCIP is a member of the SART team, which is com- posed of law enforcement members, Rape Crisis, the district attorney's office and anyone who has a role when there is sexual assault. A lot of these agencies are there for the survivors for a small portion of the time, while Rape Crisis is with the sur- vivor from the very begin- ning to when the individ- ual feels healed, Gould said. She mentioned that the organization offers ser- vices to those who were assaulted in years past as well and who are looking for help now. For more information visit rapecrisis.org. To make an appointment, an indi- vidual can call 529-3980 or the administration office in Chico at 891-1331, or anyone can come into the office, which is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday. Those who aren't ready for one-on-one counseling sessions are encouraged to call the 24-hour hotline at 342-RAPE (7273). Office FROMPAGE1 Former tournament player Morgan Evans was one of those who helped register players. "Jody asked me to help a few weeks ago as well as to help with the Special Olympics," Evans said. "I miss it and being involved as a player. It's a great thing for these kids to be involved in and in a cou- ple of years it will be some- thing great for them to re- member." Tourney FROM PAGE 1 case-by-case basis, taking into account all aspects of the situation, including the prospective target's crimi- nal history and safety con- siderations." Some of the examples repeated in the commu- nity, however, made the enforcement action sound a bit less discriminate. One man came to Marr and reported being stopped at Highway 99W and Chard, which is just up the street from the school. He told Marr he had been asked for his "papers," but when the man asked who his questioners were and if they had papers to show who they were, they did not identify themselves. There was one student who did have a parent that was taken from their home. They were worried they would return home to find the other parent gone as well, she said. "We were getting calls from families that they were going door to door and randomly stopping people and this put a lot of fear into the community," Marr said. "Our students were very upset about it. Thursday we had over 50 kids out of school, afraid to come out of the house and parents afraid take their kids to the bus stop for fear of vehicles wait- ing at the bus stop. They were fearful. This put a lot of fear in the community." There were also about 30-40 children the school took home Wednesday to make sure they got home safely. The school worked with the program First 5 to put together literature for parents that had a list of immigrant rights as well as what services were available for those who were directly or indirectly affected, Marr said. "This has put a lot of fear in the school," Marr said. "It's really had nega- tive impact on the culture and climate and brought fear in the community. We upped our counseling and psych services in the first day because we had students who were just so distraught, so upset and fearful." While rumors did circu- late in the community that ICE was going to pay a visit to the school, they did not have any agents show up, she said. John Burch, superin- tendent of both Corning Union High School and Kirkwood Elementary School districts, said he did not have any signifi- cant changes or reduction in attendance during the week. Los Molinos High School Principal Cliff Curry said his school saw no change as well. ICE FROM PAGE 1 By Frank Eltman The Associated Press BRENTWOOD, N.Y. The wounded warrior is now a cop — and he'll be walking the beat on titanium legs. Matias Ferreira, a for- mer U.S. Marine Corps lance corporal who lost his legs below the knee when he stepped on a hidden ex- plosive in Afghanistan in 2011, is joining a subur- ban New York police de- partment. The 28-year-old gradu- ated Friday from the Suf- folk County Police Acad- emy on Long Island follow- ing 29 weeks of training. The 6-foot-1 (1.9-meter), 215-pound (98-kilogram) rookie passed all the phys- ical training and other re- quirements just like any other recruit, including running a mile and a half in around 11 minutes. He begins patrols next week, a department spokesman said. "I just really want to be able to help people," said Ferreira, who immigrated to the U.S. from Uruguay as a child. "I want to be in- volved in the community, and the police department definitely allows you to do that." Ferreira was on patrol in Afghanistan on Jan. 21, 2011, when he jumped off a roof in a compound sus- pected of being a Taliban outpost. "As soon as I landed I knew something was wrong because it was like a movie almost. I heard a noise and everything went black," he said. A bomb had gone off beneath his legs, amputating both below the knees. "I just saw blood throughout my pants." He was evacuated to a local hospital. Within days, he was back in the U.S. be- ing treated for his injuries. Three months later he was wearing prosthetic legs. "I was up and walking in prosthetics and really just starting my new life," he said. That new life has in- cluded many activities he had never tried before the explosion. He has played on a softball team of wounded warriors. He sky- dives, scuba dives, snow- boards and rides a motor- cycle. Raised in Georgia, he met his future wife, Tif- fany, when his softball team played a game on Long Island in 2012. The couple now has a 2-year- old daughter. WOUNDED WARRIOR Double-amputee Marine vet joins New York police department By Kathleen Ronayne The Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. A New Hampshire training pro- gram that teaches police of- ficers and prosecutors how to treat drug overdoses as crime scenes is emerging as a model for other states grappling with the opioid crisis. Outgoing Attorney Gen- eral Joe Foster launched the training last summer so that officers could learn how to trace bad batches of drugs to the source, with the goal of charging deal- ers — particularly large suppliers — who cause overdoses with "death re- sulting," a previously little- used charge that carries up to life in prison. That training now serves as a blueprint for other at- torneys general nationwide. The National Association of Attorneys General brought several New Hampshire of- ficials to Washington in early March to draft train- ing materials for wider use, and Foster himself has be- come a go-to person on the issue. He has spoken about New Hampshire's approach at a conference in Rhode Is- land, and Alabama officials have asked for more infor- mation. In Florida, Attor- ney General Pam Bondi says she frequently talks to Fos- ter for ideas on fighting the drug crisis. "The New Hampshire program just absolutely, in my mind, was the catalyst or the cha-ching moment of, 'Hey, this would be a won- derful training to take na- tionally," said Mark Neil, counsel for the National As- sociation of Attorneys Gen- eral's training division. Officials from Ohio, Mas- sachusetts and Florida have also been involved in draft- ing the national training materials, but Neil said New Hampshire has driven the process. New Hampshire is one of many states, including Ohio, Maine, West Virginia and New Jersey, where au- thorities are filing homi- cide, involuntary man- slaughter or related charges against dealers. They argue that overdose deaths should be treated as crimes lead- ing to stiff sentences, and can serve as a deterrent to others. Officials say New Hamp- shire stands out because its training was the first that brought local, state and fed- eral officers and prosecutors together to share informa- tion and to make sure ev- eryone is approaching over- dose scenes in the same way — as a crime scene rather than an accidental death. The training teaches po- lice how to gather evidence such as cell phone records that could be traced back to the dealer and how to safely handle fentanyl, the potent drug now responsi- ble for the majority of New Hampshire's overdoses. "Before this was happen- ing, officers would walk into a scene where an individual had passed away and it was dealt with as almost a mat- ter of routine," said Ben Ag- ati, a senior assistant attor- ney general in New Hamp- shire. "It wasn't seen as an opening or an opportunity to investigate the end of the drug distribution network." But critics say this tough new approach doesn't work. "We've tried to arrest and prosecute our way out of drug problems before to no avail," said Mark Sisti, a criminal defense attorney who has represented sev- eral people facing "death re- sulting" charges. "We're not getting drug overdose death prosecutions against the big guys; we're getting them against the small guys." Others argue that re- sources could be better spent on getting people help instead of prosecuting lower level dealers, such as someone who is using drugs themselves and shares with a boyfriend or girlfriend. Law enforcement offi- cials admit it may be too soon to know whether the approach is effective and they didn't provide data on what amount of drugs has been taken off the streets. Since the training, New Hampshire's justice depart- ment has charged 11 peo- ple with "death resulting," up from just one the year before. Local departments have sent the AG's office 114 cases for more investiga- tion, and county attorneys also pursue death resulting charges on their own. For Foster, who pushed the training, prosecution is just one piece of tackling New Hampshire's addic- tion crisis. But he said peo- ple who knowingly cause deaths must face some cul- pability. "I'm told by law enforce- ment that there's chatter about the fact that if you cause a death you may well be looking at some signif- icant jail time, so hope- fully there'll be some de- terrence," Foster said. DRUGS N.H. leads effort to view overdoses as crime scenes By Bernard Condon and David Koenig The Associated Press NEW YORK The Trump family is launching a new hotel chain in a bold ex- pansion of a company that critics say is already too big and opaque for an en- terprise whose owner sits in the Oval Office. The chain, called Scion, will feature the first Trump- run hotels not to bear the family's gilded name. The hotels will feature modern, sleek interiors and commu- nal areas, and offer rooms at $200 to $300 a night, about half what it costs at some hotels in Trump's lux- ury chain. And they'll be dozens of them, possibly a hundred, opening across the coun- try in just three years. Or at least that's the plan. "It's full steam ahead. It's in our DNA. It's in the Trump boys' DNA," said Trump Hotels CEO Eric Danziger. The "boys" are Eric and Donald Jr., who are running their father's company while he is pres- ident. The bold expansion plan raises some thorny ethical questions. The Trump family won't be putting up any money to build the hotels. Instead, their company, the Trump Organization, plans to get local real estate developers and their investors to foot the bill, as do most major hotel chains. One of the first going up could be in Dallas. A de- velopment company there originally planned to raise money from unnamed in- vestors in Kazakhstan, Tur- key and Qatar, but recently told the Dallas Morning News that it now will tap only the company's U.S. partners. BOLD MOVE Trumps plot big hotel expansion, but political problems loom gion of the north state, which includes Butte, Del Norte, Lassen, Nevada, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Si- erra, Siskiyou, Tehama and Trinity counties, remains 33rd out of 46 regions in the state with 305,800 peo- ple in the labor work force, 284,300 employed and 21,500 unemployed in Feb- ruary. The unemployment rate for these counties to- tals 7 percent, 0.3 percent lower than January's rate. The data shows a 5.9 percent decrease in total farm jobs, while federal government jobs increased by 5.3 percent in February. In California there were 19,120,600 people in the la- bor work force, 18,120,300 people employed and 1,000,300 were unem- ployed. That's 38,100 more people in the labor work force, 87,000 more peo- ple employed and 48,900 fewer people unemployed. The total unemployment rate for the state was 5.2, up 0.3 percent in a month. In the U.S. the unem- ployment rate decreased by 0.2 percent to 4.9 per- cent in February. The counties with the lowest unemployment rate remained San Mateo County at 2.8 percent. Tied for second are Marin and San Francisco counties at 3 percent. All three saw their number of unemployed fall in the month. The counties with the highest unemployment rate are Colusa County at 22.8 percent, Imperial County at 18.4 percent and Plumas County at 13.1 per- cent. The unemployment rate for the counties near Te- hama County were Butte at 6.8 percent, Shasta at 7.1 percent and Glenn County at 9.1 percent. All of them saw the number of unem- ployed people drop. 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