From The Lund Report, March 15, 2013 The DOJ settlement with the city of Portland requires coordinated care organizations to set up mental health drop-off centers by July, but it’s unclear how they were singled out in the agreement Last December’s settlement between the Department of Justice and the city of Portland tasked the city […]
From The Oregonian, January 7, 2013 The Albina Ministerial Alliance Tuesday afternoon filed a motion in federal court to intervene in the city agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice governing Portland police reforms. Eds. Note: The motion for intervention was filed by the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform – not […]
Friends, On Dec. 17, USDOJ filed suit against the City of Portland under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act alleging that city’s police have acted with excessive force against persons with (or perceived to have) mental illness. This follows the negotiation between the USDOJ and City of a Settlement Agreement. Terms of the […]
From the Oregonian, November 21, 2012 Portland police officers are getting hurt during encounters with suspects because they doubt police brass, in light of a federal justice inquiry, will support them if they use the amount of force they deem appropriate, the police union president said. Officer Daryl Turner, who leads the Portland Police Association, […]
From the Willamette Week, Nov. 20, 2012 About 50 Portland Police Officers tossed their names in to serve on the bureau’s soon-to-be expanded Crisis Intervention Team, a police spokesman tells WW. Not long after the Department of Justice released its report finding PPB officers have a pattern and practice of using excessive force on those […]
Public testimony about the City of Portland & Department of Justice settlement from the November 1 2012 session. READ – Settlement agreement in United States v. City of Portland
From The Oregonian, November 2, 2012 Community activists, attorneys and civil rights workers told Portland’s City Council Thursday that the agreement the city reached with federal officials on police reforms doesn’t go far enough. They urged the council to slow down and not rush to sign the 74-page agreement next week. Civil rights attorney Tom […]
By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian, Nov. 2, 2012 When Portland’s mayor last week announced the city’s plan to address federal concerns about police treatment of people in mental health crisis, he highlighted a key feature: a drop-off or walk-in center where police could take patients in need. He said a center would open in mid-2013. […]
From the Portland Mercury, October 31, 2012 Building on last month’s federal report that blasted Portland cops’ use of unconstitutional force against the mentally ill, the US Department of Justice and city officials last Friday, October 26, reached accord on a “watershed” set of reforms bearing big promises—but even bigger questions. The agreement aims to […]
READ – DOJ – City of Portland Settlement, to be voted on by Portland City Council 11/1/12, 2 PM READ – Proposed city ordinance accepting settlement with DOJ To Thomas Perez, U.S. Department of Justice: The settlement offer distributed on October 27 may resolve differences between the city of Portland and the federal government, but […]
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