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Gresham, Ore., police chief retires Recent report said she fostered a hostile workplace By Associated Press Share: GRESHAM, Ore. Gresham Police Chief Robin Sells retired on Friday, effective immediately, city officials said Friday. The city of Gresham announced the retirement in a news release and said no further comments would be made at this time. The suburban Portland police chief’s retirement comes after a report released last week showed Sells fostered and permitted a hostile workplace that drove out a Black senior official hired to address issues of racial bias. Sells in a written statement said Friday she quit in reaction to the “city’s choice to release a deeply flawed report without affording me due process,” The Oregonian/OregonLive reported. She said the city hadn’t given her a proper chance to respond to the report’s conclusions. ....
Gresham police chief quits, again, after damning investigative report Updated Feb 19, 2021; Posted Feb 19, 2021 The chief said she was not quitting voluntarily this time, but rather because of the city’s handling of an outside report critical of her leadership. Brent Wojahn/Oregonian file photoLC- The Oregonian Facebook Share Gresham Police Chief Robin Sells resigned again Friday, the second time in eight months, over the city’s handling of an explosive personnel report that was critical of her. In a long, written statement, Sells said she quit in reaction to the “city’s choice to release a deeply flawed report without affording me due process.” The report examined complaints filed both by Sells and Corey Falls, who worked for Sells in the police department before moving on to Gresham City Hall, that they’d been treated unfairly. ....