The bill to create a new statewide police oversight board to set uniform high expectations for law enforcement officers and review disciplinary actions against police accused of serious misconduct cleared the House late Thursday and faces a Senate vote just hours before lawmakers wrap up their session. It would provide what proponents say will be strong and consistent accountability as law .
Last month, the Oregon Legislature became the home of the first legislative staff union in the nation. That union is now poised to see its first court challenge.
Oregon Woman Who Died Homeless Had Nearly $900K Held for Her by State: Money Was Just Sitting There
On 6/5/21 at 1:55 PM EDT
A woman living on the streets of Astoria, Oregon, had passed away in January 2020 without knowing that the state had over $800,000 of her unclaimed money waiting for her, KGW reported.
Cathy Boone, 49, was a regular at the Astoria Warming Shelter. She had friends who told KGW that, like all who live homeless in harsh environments, Boone struggled to survive, but she was generally a happy person.
Boone moved from Portland to Astoria, a town on the Oregon coast, to be with her mother before the latter passed away in 2016. According to court records, an attorney and personal representative assigned to her mother s estate tried to find Boone but failed to reach her.
The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) doled out at least $50,000 for events in which 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah Jones told students, among other things, that America never lived up to its founding ideals.
Oregon lawmakers consider proposal to make police disciplinary records public
Updated 6:20 PM;
Today 6:05 PM What we want to do is keep the profession as honorable as possible but also make it easier to identify those individuals that should not be wearing the uniform and get rid of them,” said state Sen. James I. Manning Jr., D-Eugene, who proposed the amendment to House Bill 2929.LC-
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A move to publicly disclose discipline taken against police officers in Oregon has become one of the more controversial law enforcement reform measures this session.
An amendment to a House bill by Sen. James I. Manning Jr., D-Eugene, says a police agency could no longer keep an officer’s personnel records confidential under the state’s public records exemption law.