*The following post was sent to the My Oregon blog server at Oregonlive.com in response to several comments posted with the news item of Multnomah Country’s settlement in the James Chasse civil case. by Michael Hopcroft, Board Member, Mental Health Association of Portland The anonymity of the Internet is a wonderful thing under some circumstances. […]
Editorial column by Steve Duin from The Oregonian, June 30 2009 Help me with this: How does Multnomah County conclude it is liable for $925,000 in collective damages in the death of James Chasse without establishing 10 cents of individual blame? Doesn’t the county’s decision to settle with the family guarantee that no one on […]
From the Los Angeles Times, June 24 2009 Despite a promise to Michelle, the president still hasn’t kicked the habit, he says at his news conference. But he’s ‘95% cured,’ he says, and doesn’t smoke in front of the children. It may not be as big as “read my lips,” but it’s shaping up as […]
From the Corvallis Gazette-Times, June 26 2009 The Oregon House has passed a bill intended to help police officers deal with people whose conduct may be caused by mental or medical problems. Rep. Andy Olson, R-Albany, had pushed for the bill since 2007 and is one of its principal sponsors. The bill now goes to […]
Guest opinion published in The Oregonian, June 28, 2009, by Kay Balmer, a free-lance writer who lives in Southeast Portland – not online It all sounds so familiar: A new law is passed after a child dies in foster care. Oregon child welfare workers will tighten their procedures, ensuring that her “death won’t be in […]
Ann Kasper asks how the Multnomah County civil commitment system can be improved. Includes interviews with Mike Hlebechuck, Jean Dentinger, Linda O’Malia and Connie Isgro.
Four documents pertaining to housing rights and due process within supportive housing communities, also called Residential Treatment Facilities and Residential Treatment Homes, have appeared on the Multnomah County Department of Human Services, Mental Health and Addictions Services Division web site, but as usual, they’re buried. We don’t know when these documents might disappear, so we’ll […]
Opinion editorial from Anna Griffin of The Oregonian, June 26 2009 At long last, someone has made a smart decision in the case of poor James Chasse. Not surprisingly, it’s Ted Wheeler. Chasse, a schizophrenic man, was behaving oddly and possibly urinating on a tree when police spotted him on Sept. 17, 2006. Two Portland […]
From The Oregonian, June 26 2009 Multnomah County is poised to pay its largest legal settlement, $925,000, to end its part in the federal civil rights lawsuit brought two and a half years ago by the family of James P. Chasse Jr. Multnomah County Chairman Ted Wheeler said the settlement, which commissioners will vote on […]
From KATU June 26 2009
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