JCONLINE.COM FRIDAY, JULY 13, 2018 7A While the Indianapolis City-County Council works to regulate dockless scooter services, Bird electric scooters has begun removing its vehicles from local streets. The removal comes about a week after competitor Lime removed its In a Thursday statement, a Bird spokesperson that the com- pany has to remove our scoot- ers from the streets of The removal began Wednesday. Keith Parker, a retired member of the Marine Corps who has been charging Bird scooters since they arrived in June, said he has been pulling scooters the streets for the last two days. want them all out by Satur- he said. Parker said he brought 30 scooters to Lafayette Road warehouse Wednesday and 72 more Thursday.
He said there are three people pull- ing the scooters streets. Damaged scooters will be sent to California, he said, and the rest will be shipped to other cities to be charged. The City-County Council is expected to vote Monday on an amendment that would regulate the rapidly growing In- dianapolis scooter scene, where two companies have been competing for the last month. Bird descended on the city June 15 with an estimated 500 scooters. Lime showed up the next week with 300 scooters of its own.
Indianapolis scrambled to regulate what had quickly become a scooter frenzy in Downtown Indian- apolis. The city sent Bird a cease-and- desist letter on June 20 that, until this week, Bird ignored. When the city sent Lime a letter on July 3 asking the company to pull its scooters, Lime complied two days later. The solution to the scooter sa- ga is a regulation that would make it il- legal to run a scooter company in Indi- anapolis without a license. In deciding which scooter compa- nies are eligible, license adminis- trator may consider, among other fac- tors, the extent to which the operations or the use of the Shared Mobility Devices have complied with current Bird, members of the council indicat- ed previously, had not complied.
just think it sits very well with a number of folks in our city to not comply with that council President Vop Osili said on Friday. has people of Indianapolis have en- thusiastically embraced shared electric a Bird spokesperson said in an email last Friday. hope that city will be able to create a smooth transition to the new permit process so that service to Hoosiers is not inter- If the amendment is passed as writ- ten, there will be a $15,000 annual fee for scooter companies that would go toward paying for scooter enforcement. In addition to the annual fee, the city would require scooter companies to pay $1 per day, per scooter. Bird suspending city scooters Bird scooters are collected around Indianapolis on Thursday.
About 100 have been removed so far. PHOTO PROVIDED BY JAMES EARLYWINE Vehicles being being removed from Indy Faith E. Pinho and Ethan May Indianapolis Star USA TODAY NETWORK Indiana WASHINGTON Rep. Susan Brooks, who disagreed with the Trump admini- decision to separate migrant parents from children, said Wednesday that a visit to the border gave her a bet- ter understanding of why taking time for the administration to reunite families. very important we get this right so we are not releasing children to or other the Carmel Republican said.
going to have to keep a amount of manpower on this Brooks was among a group of House members who visited federal immigra- tion facilities in Texas on Monday, the day before the administration fell short of a court-ordered dead- line. All children under age 5 were to be reunited by Tuesday, a group that includes about 100 children. All other minors almost 3,000 of them must be reunited by July 26. The children were separated from their parents under the zero-tolerance policy implemented by the administra- tion in early May to crack down on parents crossing the border illegally accompanied by their children, many of them seeking asylum in the U.S. after poverty, violence and political turmoil in Central America.
wish they done the separa- tion. And been clear about that from the Brooks said. She has also signed congressional letters to the administration asking for more information about how handling the issue, and has said the families need to be reunited as quickly as possible. Asked Wednesday if happening, Brooks said it is and now she better understands some of the challenges. One step that takes time, she said, is DNA testing of adults who claim children.
Three people claiming to be parents admitted they were not the parents when began to swab them for DNA testing, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told reporters Tuesday. DNA testing showed an additional three people were not the biological parents of the child they claimed was theirs. But the only area where U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw provided some wiggle room for the administration on timing is in cases where the parent has been deported.
He said those families must be reunited under his order, but he acknowledged that those tions will take time. Brooks said some parents are will- ingly leaving their children behind when deported because they might have other family members in the United States and parents are realizing their children are better in our country without Congress has struggled to pass legis- lation to deal with a va- riety of immigration is- sues, including the issue of adults crossing the border with children, funding President Don- ald desired bor- der wall, and protecting undocumented immi- grants that came to the U.S. as children. Last month, the House soundly de- feated an immigration bill that Repub- lican leaders had hoped would unite warring factions within their party. Brooks, along with Reps.
Jackie Walorski and Larry Bucshon, were the only Indiana Republicans who voted for the bill. Democrats, who united in opposi- tion to the GOP bill, had hopes of win- ning support from some Republicans like Brooks for a parliamentary move to force a vote on a bill they preferred. Brooks said she join that because she doubted it would result in legislation that could pass the Senate and be signed into law by Trump. Saying she was overwhelmed by the sheer number of children she saw Monday who had crossed the border most without an adult Brooks said the larger question is what can be done to address happening in their home countries that is making them cannot continue to have tens of thousands of unaccompanied children coming into the she said. a massive, horrible Brooks overwhelmed on visit to migrant facilities Maureen Groppe Indianapolis Star USA TODAY NETWORK Susan Brooks Man sentenced in hit-and-run death of 5-year-old girl MICHIGAN CITY A northwestern Indiana man who pleaded guilty in the hit-and-run death of a 5-year-old girl could avoid prison.
The (Michigan City) News-Dis- patch reports Marcus Scully of Trail Creek was sentenced Wednesday to a year each of prison, electronic moni- toring and probation. The judge, how- ever, is allowing him to be on electron- ic monitoring and probation If Scully pays nearly $15,000 in res- titution and completes community service, the court could change the prison term to another year of proba- tion. Scully pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death. said he panicked and Relatives say Delaney Klewer and her 8-year-old sister were returning home from a park two blocks from their home in July 2017 when the colli- sion occurred. Scully turned himself in two days afterward.
Mom pleads not guilty to neglect in drowning death VALPARAISO A woman charged with neglect in the drowning death of her 3-year-old daughter has pleaded not guilty during her appearance in a Porter County court. A police dog found Tamira Billing- slea in a pond Monday night after au- thorities in Valparaiso responded to a call about a missing girl. Tasia Perkins pleaded not guilty Thursday and said hiring a law- yer. Police say the 32-year-old Perkins gave statements about Ta- disappearance. Investigators say the girl may have been missing for much longer than just a few minutes as Perkins initially claimed.
Trump nominates Indiana agribusinessman for UN ag post FORT WAYNE President Donald Trump has nominated a northern Indi- ana agribusinessman to be the na- next ambassador of agriculture to the United Nations. If the U.S. Senate Kip Tom for the post, he would be based in Rome and oversee three U.N. agencies based there. His title would be U.S.
Representative to the U.N. Agencies for Food and Agriculture. Tom is chief executive of Tom Farms, which is based in the Kos- ciusko County town of Leesburg and grows corn and soybeans in seven northern Indiana counties. The Journal Gazette reports Tom says in an email that he looks to representing the administration and our if Aircraft makes emergency landing on I-55, near Lincoln, Ill. LINCOLN, Ill.
A small aircraft has made an emergency landing on the northbound lanes of Interstate 55 just north of Lincoln, Illinois. Illinois State Police said William J. Farnsley of Austin, Indiana, was trying to land his single-engine Cessna 182B at the Logan County Airport on Wednesday afternoon when it lost power. Farnsley was forced to make an emergency landing on the interstate, striking a passenger vehicle. The pas- sengers in the auto were not injured.
The plane crossed the median and came to rest on the shoulder of the northbound lands. Authorities say the landing gear of the plane was damaged, and it was towed from the scene. State police said the incident re- mains under investigation. Associated Press BRIEFS.
