June 2020 – Mental Health PDX

Oregon Attorneys Coping With COVID-19

June 20, 2020

An excerpt from OSB Bulletin June 2020, “Coping With COVID-19 Legal Community Responds to ‘Conditions We’ve Never Seen Before’” DOWNLOAD – 202006 OSB Bulletin – Coping with COVID-19 article An attorney who follows a similar ethic is Amanda J. Marshall, who handles juvenile dependency and delinquency cases and civil commitments in Oregon City for Clackamas […]

Work Group to Decriminalize Mental Illness

June 10, 2020

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| Health Care, Mental Health

The Work Group to Decriminalize Mental Illness usually meets monthly to discuss state legislative work. The work group is open to the public, and chaired by Judge Patrick Wolke and St. Senator Floyd Prozanski. To get updates contact Channa Newell – Channa.Newell@oregonlegislature.gov Documents distributed June 10 Oregon Jails during COVID-19 – A Look Inside 29 […]

No Progress to Show in Four Years of Police Reform in Portland

June 9, 2020

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| Advocacy, Law Enforcement, Police violence

Author – Michael Hopcroft, Board member of the Mental Health Association of Portland On February 25th, a status conference was held in federal court about the settlement of a civil rights case on police use of force. In 2012, the US Department of Justice sued the City of Portland over multiple cases of excessive or […]