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The latest concern over the Rose Quarter highway project? Schoolchildren.
Amanda Lamb Multnomah County A former Multnomah County analyst who was fired last month for sharing data about racial disparities in the justice system has found a new home: City Hall. Amanda Lamb began work Monday as a management analyst with the city’s Independent Police Review (IPR), a wing of the auditor’s office that investigates […]
The police bureau says that’s completely fine.
Jail officials call findings “over-exaggerated and sensationalized.”
High-profile complaints have the PBA winning more no-sit sidewalks.
Officials and advocates are attempting to make the criminal justice system less terrible.
It hopes to stop cops from using a controversial “kettle” maneuver.
Groups including the Oregon ACLU, CAIR Oregon, and Portland Copwatch call on the city to nix JTTF involvement last week. Dirk VanderHart Last week a coalition of police watchdogs, civil liberties groups, and others sprung a new proposition on Mayor Ted Wheeler. Two years after the city voted to re-join the FBI’s secretive Joint Terrorism […]
Groups including the Oregon ACLU, CAIR Oregon, and Portland Copwatch call on the city to nix JTTF involvement this morning. Dirk Vanderhart If civil liberties advocates get their way, Portland’s latest city council might be the third in a row to consider the city’s involvement with federal anti-terror investigations. In a call that’s become familiar […]
They’ve gotten a recording scrubbed from the web, and say it’s inaccurate.
Four former assistant chiefs are held blameless.
JOHN MOORE / GETTY IMAGES Three Multnomah County deputies had a simple answer when asked by internal investigators recently why they assisted federal immigration agents: They’d been doing it for years, and no one told them not to. Investigatory reports released by the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office today shed light on the reasons the deputies—Keith […]
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