City of Oroville moves forward with banning needle distribution programs

One local city council is taking up the matter of whether to ban the establishment of needle exchange programs within city limits.

This morning - one local city council is taking up the matter of whether to ban the establishment of needles exhange programs within city limits.

Action news now reporter jafet serrato is live in butte county... jafet which city and what did council decide?

Oroville city council members voted to*ba* the distribution of syringes within their city limits.

The vote was unanimous in moving forward with what they called ordinance 18-42.

This ban will go in effect in 30 days.

Everyone who wished to comment during the meeting agreed with the ban too.

Mayor chuck reynolds suggested to the city administrator to move forward with sending a letter to the state department of public health over concerns of this program in other cities.

Reynolds says cities should mark the syringes with a type of serial number to identify which city those syringes came from.

In butte county jafet serrato action news now.

Incidentally assemblyman james gallagher sent a letter on february urging the california department of public health to revoke north valley harm reduction coalition's syringe distribution program.

Congressman lamalfa announced legislation that would reinstate prohibition of needle programs.### new this morning...