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Job Opening: Compliance Officer/Community Liaison & the Community Oversight Advisory Board Chair Posted: 6/17/2016 Location: Portland Metro Closing Date: open until filled Industry: Nonprofit Type: Part Time Background: Rosenbaum and Watson, LLP has contracted with the City of Portland to evaluate the implementation of the Settlement Agreement (SA) between the United States Department of Justice […]
December 3, 2015 MEMORANDUM TO THE COMPLIANCE OFFICER AND COMMUNITY LIAISON FROM: The DOJ Monitoring Team SUBJECT: COAB Operations The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) provides this memorandum, in consultation with the City Attorney’s Office to provide guidance to COCL and COAB members in light of issues raised during recent COAB meetings concerning the […]
Eds. Note – The complaint below stems from the United States Department of Justice v. City of Portland settlement agreement where the city of Portland is required to hire a “Compliance Officer / Community Liaison” (CO/CL) and impanel a “Community Oversight Advisory Board” (COAB). DISTRIBUTED VIA EMAIL – November 19, 2015 TO: Adrian Brown, Assistant […]
Eds. Note – The emails below are not uploaded to the COCL COAB website – by City staff, recipients of the email and letter, COCL or COAB members. So we’ll post it here. Seems of merit. (The City Attorney directed all correspondence by members of the COCL and COAB to be included on the COCL […]
Consult Hardesty, July 29, 2015 “In a society governed by the rule of law, the government, its officials and agents are subject to and held accountable under the law. Modern societies have developed systems of checks and balances, both constitutional and institutional, to limit the reach of excessive government power, and to subject the government […]
The settlement agreement for United States v. City of Portland is now under some degree of management by the Chicago-based team of Rosenbaum & Watson LLP, and their Portland-based representative Kathleen Saadat. A cursory review of the Compliance Officer/Community Liaison & Community Oversight Advisory Board web site does not reveal any relevant progress to date […]
Published in Street Roots, April 10, 2015 By Jenny Westberg and Jason Renaud This op ed was sent to the printer April 8, the same day Paul De Muniz resigned from the Chicago-based Rosenbaum Group – awarded the Compliance Officer/Community Liaison contract by Portland Mayor Charlie Hales in January 2015. Glam rock bad boys Van […]
Former Oregon Chief Justice Paul DeMuniz withdraws from Portland team overseeing police reforms, Oregonian, April 8, 2015 Former Oregon Chief Justice Paul DeMuniz withdrew Wednesday from Portland’s compliance team selected to oversee federally mandated police reforms. In an email he sent to members of the city’s new Community Oversight Advisory Board that he chaired, DeMuniz, […]
OPB News, April 3, 2015 Portland has a new police oversight group, the Community Oversight Advisory Board. It’s made up of five police officers and 15 citizen volunteers, including people living with disabilities and mental illnesses. The group is part of a legal settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, which had found a pattern of […]
Our response to the current COCL candidates To CITY COUNCIL, CITY AUDITOR and senior city hall staff. September 10, 2014 For over a decade advocates for people with mental illness have steadily watched one police reform effort after another launch grandly and flop summarily. The settlement in DOJ v. City of Portland has been, from […]
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