December 3, 2015 MEMORANDUM TO THE COMPLIANCE OFFICER AND COMMUNITY LIAISON FROM: The DOJ Monitoring Team SUBJECT: COAB Operations The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) provides this memorandum, in consultation with the City Attorney’s Office to provide guidance to COCL and COAB members in light of issues raised during recent COAB meetings concerning the […]
Eds. Note – The complaint below stems from the United States Department of Justice v. City of Portland settlement agreement where the city of Portland is required to hire a “Compliance Officer / Community Liaison” (CO/CL) and impanel a “Community Oversight Advisory Board” (COAB). DISTRIBUTED VIA EMAIL – November 19, 2015 TO: Adrian Brown, Assistant […]
Eds. Note – The emails below are not uploaded to the COCL COAB website – by City staff, recipients of the email and letter, COCL or COAB members. So we’ll post it here. Seems of merit. (The City Attorney directed all correspondence by members of the COCL and COAB to be included on the COCL […]
Consult Hardesty, July 29, 2015 “In a society governed by the rule of law, the government, its officials and agents are subject to and held accountable under the law. Modern societies have developed systems of checks and balances, both constitutional and institutional, to limit the reach of excessive government power, and to subject the government […]
Understanding how police officers think about mental/emotional disturbance calls (PDF) 2014 – 8 pages, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry Amy C. Watson, James Swartz, Casey Bohrman, Liat S. Kriegel, Jeffrey Draine ABSTRACT Police officers frequently respond to calls involving persons with mental illnesses and in doing so, they are key gatekeepers of access to […]
Improving police response to persons with mental illness: A multi-level conceptualization of CIT (PDF) 10 pages, 2008 – International Journal of Law and Psychiatry Amy C. Watson, Melissa Schaefer Morabito, Jeffrey Draine, Victor Ottati ABSTRACT The large numbers of people with mental illness in jails and prisons has fueled policy concern in all domains of […]
The settlement agreement for United States v. City of Portland is now under some degree of management by the Chicago-based team of Rosenbaum & Watson LLP, and their Portland-based representative Kathleen Saadat. A cursory review of the Compliance Officer/Community Liaison & Community Oversight Advisory Board web site does not reveal any relevant progress to date […]
Two longtime community and social justice activists, Jason Renaud of the Mental Health Association of Portland, and Kathleen Saadat of the Chicago-based Rosenbaum & Watson LLC “Compliance Officer/Community Liaison,” hired by Mayor Charlie Hales to oversee the city’s response to United States v. City of Portland, appeared on local Portland radio in the last few […]
The Skanner, June 11, 2015 Kathleen Saadat has come out of retirement again – this time to oversee police reform. Now she’ll be serving on the Compliance Officer/Community Liaison team overseeing reforms required by The United States vs. City of Portland settlement agreement. The 2012 settlement was the result of a Department of Justice investigation […]
The Chicago-based academic duo of Rosenbaum & Watson LLP, hired by Portland Mayor Charlie Hales to sort out whether the Portland Police Bureau is complying with the 180+ item settlement agreement resulting from U.S. v. City of Portland, flew into town May 28 to present their first quarterly report and introduce their new front-person, retired […]
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