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Category: Courts

Pertaining to trials, law suits, Judges

No charges for Multnomah County employees over mishandled abuse complaints

November 19, 2019
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Portland Tribune, November 19, 2019 District Attorney Rod Underhill won’t charge employees for not forwarding cases for investigation READ – Prosecution Decline Memorandum, Multnomah County Sheriff’s Case No. 18-67244, November 18, 2019 READ – Multnomah County Mental Health Adult Protective Services Review, October 26, 2019 In August 2018, Multnomah County launched an investigation into the […]

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Multnomah County mental health whistleblower sues

April 2, 2019
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READ – Monaco v. Multnomah County, Legacy Health + DBA Unity Center, and Chris Farentinos (PDF) READ – Multnomah County’s termination letter to David Hidalgo, March 27 2019 (PDF) Multnomah County mental health whistleblower sues Greg Monaco, told to shut up about reports of patient abuse at Legacy’s Unity Center, is now suing. From the […]

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Costly, ineffective, cruel: How Oregon ensnares mentally ill people charged with low-level crimes

January 28, 2019
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From the Oregonian – Gordon Friedman, January 27, 2019 Early one Monday last November, police arrested Kobe Yandell for napping in the lobby of a downtown Portland skyscraper. Officers took the wiry 21-year-old, who is homeless and has schizophrenia, to the Multnomah County jail, where he spent the next 52 days in isolation. A trespassing […]

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Prosecutors reviewing Multnomah handling of abuse complaints

December 4, 2018
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Portland Tribune, December 04, 2018 Investigators found 16 Unity Center cases should have gone to cops. County employees scrutinized. An internal review of how Multnomah County employees handled cases of alleged abuse and neglect of mentally ill people from greater Portland has spawned a criminal investigation, the Portland Tribune has learned. Among the issues that […]

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New mental health alliance wants to participate in city’s settlement on police reforms

September 11, 2018
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From The Oregonian, September 11, 2018 A new alliance of mental health advocacy groups wants a seat at the table in the court’s review of the city of Portland’s four-year old settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice stemming from police use of excessive force against people with mental illness. The alliance was formed […]

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Testimony on Patient Abuse Reporting

August 23, 2018
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Testimony for Multnomah County Commission – August 23, 2018 Beckie and I are here today to speak about the safety of thousands of patients at Unity Center, and in the dozens of other hospitals, clinics, alcohol and drug treatment centers, nursing homes, jails, daycare centers, schools, adult foster homes, residential care facilities, mental health treatment […]

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