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UPDATED: TriMet Seeks New Contractor For Safety Response Team

The change comes as contracted Safety Response Team employees, long dissatisfied with their bosses, urged the public transit agency to find a new company to run the unarmed crisis response program.

Updated: 12:17 pm July 3 UPDATE: TriMet has announced it intends to contract with Allied Universal to manage the Safety Response Team and Customer Safety Officers, starting August 1. TriMet already partners with Allied, one of the world’s largest private security companies, for transit security positions. TriMet Public Information Officer Tyler Graf told the Mercury […]

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Good Morning, News! Money Helps With Poverty, We ๐ŸŒน Portland Arts, Top “Hillbilly Elegy” Diplomat to Pakistan, ICE and Other Dumbass Trump News

If you appreciate the Mercury‘s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. You can also subscribe and have our papers delivered! Good Morning, Portland: Thereโ€™s so much going on this weekend that the local section of this edition of Good […]

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