they see too many cigarette butts littering column and park but argue it's a littering issue not unique to smokers both men said a park smoking ban would be going too far it's an eyesore richard said to cigarette about cigarette butts but  try to clean them up every few days and clout callen and park in amman isn't even a smoker the smoking ban is something most downtown business owners want signified a county health educator heather bolus nearly ninety percent of the business owners agreed they want smoking banned in kalimantan pioneer parks in a recent nevada county public health survey said cigarette butt litter it is a huge issue as are concerns with air pollution both of said the callan and park small who just said they feel like they're being kicked to the curb i don't know what banning smoking at the park is going to accomplish said one man who declined to identify himself there outside he said incredulously everyone is respectful here the man said nobody blows smoke in anybody's face to jeff higgins who as was strolling through callan and park the planned and over reaches it just feels like they're pushing out the street kids and people like businesses don't higgins said i like the fact that hoodlums hang out here the banning callen and park would cover the entire property at the corner of broad street and union street but official city officials could allow smoking in designated spots larger pioneer park police said the city parks and recreation committee and formally okayed the proposal last week and city council is expected to hear the play and formally for first time wednesday no formal action is expected on wednesday council meeting if the initial part smoking ban is crafted into a city ordinance nevada city would join grass valley which already has smoking bans of parks in two thousand and five grass valley ban smoking it is the daniels and tao alexander parks the city also prohibit smoking at park buildings and playgrounds little league baseball fields swimming pools and skate parks tennis courts and twenty feet away from designated no smoking areas the county suicide rate above states levels prevention is goal at community leaders maybe the nevada county suicide rate running much higher than the state average community leaders are focusing more efforts on suicide prevention and the latest example the county nevada county community leadership institute held a one day summit to tackle the problem the county suicide rate was fifteen point eight per one hundred thousand in two thousand and four compared to nine point seven per one hundred thousand state wide according to the latest figures provided by the institute i heard a disturbing frequency for response to suicide attempts upon arriving in the county less than two years ago said grass valley fire chief jim marcus who chaired thursday's summit speaking for the first time publicly about his son michael suicide last year grass valley insured agent mike bratton placed a human touch on the statistics every parent needs to be aware every parent needs to study and learn about this bratton told the crowd of community leaders and mental health professionals we never ever manage something like this could happen you don't wish this on anyone bratton said i wake up in the middle of the night and i can't believe it brought into tears perseverant bratton talked about his bright motivated son who grew up nurtured and churchgoing household but michael twenty five had not recovered from a previous breakup with his girlfriend and was probably more depressed than anyone realized now our mission is come up with ideas to prevent this  need education at a younger age to let people know there's a place to go when i do came from dr peter van houghton of sierra family medical clinic on nor on the san juan ridge as part of their clinics approach to medicine mental health questionnaires are now teaming for patients just like your blood pressure is taken the forms are used to spot potential problems and how to say although bratton start focused on youth and help instead the groups most prone to suicide are men more than sixty five with health problems as well as mentally ill dr doug crist medical director of nevada county behavioral health department said many people who are attempts suicide are actually calling out for help but many are successful by accident people at risk for suicide will isolate themselves and start giving things away suicide attempt survivor heather no walkie said school teachers and others should watch for habits and youth like self cutting which she did to herself i know i was not the only one now walk you said i had friends who cut themselves she also sympathizes with bratton about his son and said red flags should go up around relationship problems among us at young age love issues get blown out of proportion she said many at the conference said education of the entire community will be key cut to county suicide rate by fifty percent the goal of the group who held the summit they hope it leads to the creation of a local suicide taskforce besides marcus the four others who took on the suicide as part of their hot topic work group at the leadership institute included debbie sultan the least daily macgyver you are allowed to cook and lacey elliott if you want to help them you can call cook at four seven seven one three eight two or elliot at four seven seven five two three four in another story a man attacked with skateboard victim is in critical condition in grass valley man seriously injured at condon's skate park thursday as he reportedly tried to break up a fight with another man and the other and hit him with it in the head with the skate board joshua hearkens twenty five was in critical condition friday you said robin montgomery said are roseville medical centers folks meant patrick cronin twenty accused of assaulting arkan's was booked into wayne brown correctional facility in lieu of ten thousand dollars bail the nevada county district attorney's office charged cronan at on friday it was assault with a deadly weapon and battery with serious bodily injury harkins twenty five was taken by ambulance to sierra nevada memorial hospital about four thirty p m after police responded to a nine one one caller who reported a fight broke out near the medical center for closest trauma center witness told police cronin was responsible for the assault police later tracked down cronin in his workplace in grass valley and arrested him police said they responded to several incidents at the park every week fights and drug activities are often reported by callers in the area according to police logs now that high school is laid out police say they expect a incidents to increase conan is expected to be arraigned next week in nevada county superior court now for the police blotter grass valley police department on thursday at ten forty three am a caller from a business on a five hundred block of freeman lane reported graffiti on a mailbox had eleven fifty one a m a caller from business on a one hundred block of west burial drive reported hysteria was stolen police took report for grand theft at twelve twenty nine pm police cited three people elizabeth daniels at elizabeth daniels park it twenty two year old man and a twenty four  man with flame tattoos on his back was stumbling into traffic police arrested a forty one year old man suspicion of public drunkenness at two forty one p m a man called from the three hundred block of pleasant street to report he was removing his belongings from the residence and he believed a woman might call later to report the items as he requested contact should such a call come in at three o three p m it woman caller from the three hundred block of pleasant street called to report a man stole locate source of any gunshots at four thirty two pm a caller from the two hundred block of dorsey drive reported a man was beyond some bushes and he wasn't wearing all of his clothes at four fifty five pm a caller from the value drive reported a man with his gray hair in a point of sale was urinating in public at seven eighteen pm a call from the two hundred block of scots pine circle reported two pit bulls were loose and chasing women and her two dogs animal control was advised at ten o three p m a caller from bennett street at the old railroad property reported people were throwing eggs police interviewed juveniles on friday at seven twenty four am a caller from the highway forty nine a christian life way reported a vehicle was involved in an accident with multiple deer t p responded had nine thirteen am a caller from mill street reported a large vehicle had hit the building and bricks were falling police contacted the caller that a county sheriff's office thursday at nine thirty four am a person who lives up to seventeen thousand block of new orleans way reported an i pod and there were stolen from an unlocked vehicle parked in a driveway a deputy took a report for grand theft at ten thirteen am a caller from the highway forty nine reported a man was making gestures and was partially in and out of traffic the c h p was notified at two over four p m a caller from sixteen thousand block a hill a road reported sponsible boone a man called to say he would be waiting for the police at the bottom of the driveway and that a woman was hitting yourself in the face to make it look red and injured deputies arrested a fifty three year old man on suspicion of battery at seven forty eight p m a caller from the highway forty nine reported two men were fist fighting on the side of the highway just north of bear river were grinch deputies were unable to caller from the fourteen thousand block a highway one seventy four reported theft of a television from an unlocked vehicle at eight ten a m a caller from the eleven thousand block of lower circle drive reported several mailboxes in an area were smashed last night at ten thirty three a m a caller from the thirteen thousand block of north meadow view drive reported to unlock vehicles were in her last night stereos and one hundred dollars were taken to fattest city police department thursday at twelve o two p m a caller from the county jail on a nine hundred block of may do ave reported a woman was said to bondsman released or was a dead car battery at eleven twenty three p m a woman called from the three hundred block of bridge street to report her home was burglarized someone hit her in the face with the board police arrived and determined the woman had no injuries and no crime had occurred and the woman was extremely intoxicated and was transported to hospital for excessive use of alcohol in far called on thursday at ten forty two a m a caller reported grass fire on the fifteen thousand block of indian court and spence filled road for our department was notified five thirty four p m the fire department responded to a vegetation fire on the twelve thousand block of black road and world knows the sex offenders younger more violent courts have seen the number of sex offense cases involving juvenile offenders rise dramatically in recent years and associated press review of national statistics found and treatment for fetchin say the offenders are getting younger and the crimes more violent some psychologists blame the increase in numbers forty percent over two decades on a society saturated with sex and violence and the fact that many of the accused were themselves victims of adult sexual predators others say they aren't more children committing such crimes simply more awareness better reporting and general hysteria about sex offenders i don't think it's appropriate to suggest we have a whole schools full of sexual predators but we were seen more of it and more sexually aggressive acts said scott poland past president of the national association of school psychologist how do these kids even know about this is permeated through our society robert print key  harsh sanctions that apply to juveniles the number of children under eighteen accused of forcible rape violent and nonviolent sex offenses rose from twenty four thousand one hundred in one thousand nine hundred five to thirty three thousand eight hundred two thousand and four a violent offenses included attempted rape and sexual assault while nonviolent offenses including statutory rape in prostitution by comparison rape and sexual assaults by adults decreased more than fifty six percent from one thousand nine hundred three to two thousand and four comparable statistics  unavailable before nine hundred ninety three department of justice there are just as to to six the national center for juvenile justice a pennsylvania based nonprofit that specializes in statistical and policy research and the say first society foundation inc nonprofit that works to prevent sexual abuse sharon arity an alaskan psychologist who took one of the first broad looks at the problem in our book sexual aggressive children thinks the number of siblings are widely thought to be on their reported in may drive the number even higher however as you said the whole society is not yet up to this problem he said these kids on extreme and if nothing is done to catch them they're going to become our adult offenders of tomorrow studies show that one in two sex offenders begin their sexual abuse of behavior as juveniles the rise in juvenile sex offenders spawn hundreds of new treatment facilities for children as young as five in two and two there were nine hundred thirty seven programs in the us truly an adolescent offenders generally ages twelve to seventeen from three hundred forty six in one thousand nine hundred eighty six during the same period a list of programs aimed at children under twelve grew from zero to four hundred ten according to the safer society foundation however franklin zimring a juvenile justice expert at the university of california berkeley thinks many children are unnecessarily treated to sex offenders to pedophiles are extremely rare among young people he says as long as public temperature is up you're going to get more referrals from the courts for treatment he said if you don't want to lock a kid up treatment is a political safe outcome many experts agree that some amount of sexual exploration by young people i healthy a line is a crossed when force and violence are involved they say recent incidents incidents involve the case of two boys in omaha nebraska who were accused in january of videotaping their assault of two five year old girls and a three year old boy and the eight year old boy buffalo new york boy accused of assaulting a six year old boy after he saw a prison rape scene an r rated movie in alaska lawyer dennis maloney calls it an epidemic his state has one of the nation's highest per capita rate of youth sex offenders in treatment and one of the highest rates of treatment programs per capita others in the top seven are hawaii idaho minnesota montana new hampshire and vermont according to the city for a safer society foundation molony represents the family's six year old boy raped by the fellow kindergartener he said please i'll do it i'll be your best friend dia ledge victim said according to the transcript of the interview with a police officer experts say certain trends emerge among cases of children charged with sex crimes against other children in the estimate range from forty percent to eighty percent were molested themselves and forty two percent have been exposed to hardcore pornography the offers of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention an arm of the u s department of justice said in two thousand and one report psychologists prefer to refer to juveniles charge of such crimes or sexual aggressive children rather than as sex offenders psychologic to sever volves who runs a sex offender treatment program within a california department of juvenile justice says sexually often have skewed sense of sexuality and which force of violence becomes normal some kids see it as how you show affection how you get your needs met she said if you're a kid watching your father rape your mother if i feel like i want it i can get it no matter what in another story little hollywood love for paris hilton so lebanese who fall on tough legal times can often rely on their fellow stars for support jodie foster spoke out on mel gibson's behalf after his anti semitic tirade summer the cast of the view gave alec baldwin a place to explain his custody battle an angry voicemail message she left for his eleven year old daughter robert downey jr was welcoming and welcomed with understanding and job offers after his multiple drug arrest but few hollywood players have come out in support of paris hilton who was sentenced to forty five days in jail for violating her probation in an alcohol related reckless driving case the twenty six year old surrendered to sheriff's deputies june third and was booked into lynnwood jail she was released to home confinement a few days later went back behind bars friday powerful people said veteran hollywood publicist michael divine in but in this case i don't see any rallying around her and she is a person who's got into a famous club for nothing and i think there's something contempt about that howard bragman a long time publicist  runs the public relations firm fifteen minutes said he doesn't have a strong foundation of relationships in this town that would motivate famous folks to stand behind her paris hilton was made in a microwave and not in a crock pot he said  her brief stay behind bars more like it's treatment an actual sentence so libraries get treated lightly by the judicial system he said wealthy in a fluent and famous people get treated differently than anybody else los angeles county sheriff le misses a promotional opportunity a b c used the endless publicity surrounding help this case to promote its new t v show dirty sexy money the show focuses on a fictional family of the darling a wealthy clan not unlike the hiltons the network placed a full page ad in the los angeles times and the new york post it read paris the darling family an airplane towing a banner with the same as she flew above downtown courthouse friday that's all for now thanks for watch