Like many on pretrial release (mine costed 58k bail) I have to use an automated check-in system. It says I "must answer all questions truthfully."

The 4th query is "do you know the date + time of your court hearing?"

I don't. No one does. But if I say "no," my record is dinged.

Deputy Banta gets an alert via the system and it goes on my record presumably to be used against me at trial. In the past when I told the truth "no, I know nothing about my next court hearing and neither does any living person," I've gotten emails, phone calls, all recorded.

Our tax dollars at work.

The day I was released and went to "Close Street Supervision" (a beige room at the Justice Center) I asked, "if I break the agreement or am somehow truant do I call you?"

"If you do, *I'll* be calling *you*" she said, deadly serious.

I have NEVER received a call from her.

That includes a call back when I specifically requested one (literally hundreds of times via the automated system) and the few times issues have arisen via the system, like the "sorry, application error" message that led to my last message, this one:

Ask yourself: how that text would make you feel if you had been trying to comply with an unresponsive officer in a garbage system THAT COST YOU $58K TO CHOOSE OVER WHAT AMOUNTS NOW TO OVER A YEAR IN JAIL awaiting trial?

I'm not even going to get into the details of my case —they will make you too angry. I'm just here pointing out, again, how terrible the criminal justice system in Oregon really is.

BEFORE TRIAL (let alone conviction) I have been stripped of the following Constitutional Amendment rights:

1st (free speech)

2nd (I am disarmed)

4th (privacy is voided)

Arguably 5th, considering my grand jury "witnesses" were literally not witnesses

8th (excessive bail)

A year so far, cousins. A year of being forcibly disarmed, unable to BE IN GROUPS, or to legally protest, unable to leave my house at night, leave the tricounty area. A year of being subject to search ANYTIME, including random drug testing. I can't even ENTER bars.

For clarity: above, it says both that I have never received a call from my supervisory deputy, Amie Banta, and that I have received phone calls.

The ONLY calls I ever got were from someone working a desk at Close Street, covering for Banta while she was away.

Must be nice.

Honestly, whoever that was was very helpful and courteous, too. It shocked me.