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May 12 2021 The Portland City Commissioner said the audit of the embattled bureau should be released before Thursday s vote on next year s budget. Portland Commissioner Mingus Mapps is calling on the city to release the contested third-party audit of the Office of Community & Civic Life before the Thursday, May 13, vote on next year s budget. Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt ordered Portland officials to release the audit of the embattled bureau on Tuesday, May 11. Schmidt said the office was not exempt from disclosure because of attorney-client privilege as the Portland City Attorney s Office had claimed. A former office employee and three news organizations had appealed the denial of their public records requests to Schmidt s office. One of them was Oregon Public Broadcasting, which has reported extensively on the bureau s problems. ....
Wyden, Blumenauer endorses full funding of Portland Street Response program May 06 2021 The Oregon U.S. senator tweets his support the day after a public hearing on Mayor Ted Wheeler s proposed budget. Oregon U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden urged the City Council to fully fund the Portland Street Response program Thursday, May 6. Wyden tweeted that he had met with Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who favors full funding, and said he supports federal funding for such non-police crisis response teams nationally. Portland s program pairs Portland Police & Fire paramedics with mental health professionals to respond to 911 calls that do not require a police response. The program started as a pilot in Lents in February. Mayor Ted Wheeler has proposed spending nearly $1 million in next year s budget to fully fund the pilot. Hardesty wants to spend at least $3 million more to expand the program citywide. ....
Wyden, Blumenauer endorses full funding of Portland Street Response program May 06 2021 The Oregon U.S. senator tweets his support the day after a public hearing on Mayor Ted Wheeler s proposed budget. Oregon U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden urged the City Council to fully fund the Portland Street Response program Thursday, May 6. Wyden tweeted that he had met with Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who favors full funding, and said he supports federal funding for such non-police crisis response teams nationally. Portland s program pairs Portland Police & Fire paramedics with mental health professionals to respond to 911 calls that do not require a police response. The program started as a pilot in Lents in February. Mayor Ted Wheeler has proposed spending nearly $1 million in next year s budget to fully fund the pilot. Hardesty wants to spend at least $3 million more to expand the program citywide. ....
Apr 8, 2021 Portland Street Response (PSR), the pilot program from the City of Portland that offers a non-police response to assist people experiencing houselessness or low acuity behavioral/mental health crises, expanded its boundaries on April 1, 2021 to serve more areas. The pilot began using the boundaries in the Lents neighborhood serviced by Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R) Fire Station 11 and is now responding within eight Portland Police Bureau (PPB) districts in the greater Lents area. Fire station service districts are called Fire Management Areas, or FMAs. After a month in service, an analysis of calls in consultation with PSR’s partners at the Bureau of Emergency Communication (BOEC) led program managers to see that the team was missing calls tied to police district areas just outside of the FMA. As part of the pilot, PSR is going to test assigning the areas to police districts rather than FMAs, which will result in expanded service to the greater Lents area. ....