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The Register-Guard, April 21, 2015 Last month, Kim Gutierrez, a mother of three girls, moved out of a home she has rented for several years in a neighborhood she loved. “I no longer feel safe here,” Gutierrez said. “I hate to leave here, but that is it.” The source of her anxiety: the large single-family […]
The Lund Report, May 1, 2014 Fewer people than ever before are under the jurisdiction of the Psychiatric Security Review Board, according to executive director Juliet Follansbee who spoke at the annual Mental Health Association of Portland event and gave an overview on trends and changes within the agency. “We’ve been interested in how the […]
The Oregonian, April 30, 2014 The family of Jennifer Warren, who was killed in May 2012 in St. Helens while delivering medication to a patient, filed a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday against multiple corrections offices and health agencies. Warren, a health support worker for Columbia Community Mental Health, was stabbed to death in May 2012 […]
Street Roots, April 12, 2014 On the desk in Juliet Follansbee’s downtown Portland office is a thick book of Oregon laws. It contains only a few sentences that grant the state agency she operates tremendous power over the lives of hundreds of Oregonians. In May, Follansbee was made interim executive director of the Psychiatric Security […]
By Jenny Westberg, Portland Mental Health Examiner, Feb. 9, 2014 An Iraq War veteran, who was found guilty but insane on murder charges due to PTSD, was released Friday from the Oregon State Hospital after the state’s review board determined he no longer has a mental illness. Jessie Bratcher‘s 2009 trial, for the murder of […]
Psychiatric Security Review Board Conditional Release and Community Treatment Facilities DOWNLOAD – full format PDF of this text. READ – legal basis for the Psychiatric Security Review Board Background: When someone commits a crime and is found by the Courts to be “guilty except for insanity,” he or she is placed under the jurisdiction of […]
With the resignation earlier this year of Mary Claire Buckley as director of the Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB) after a state investigation found she “regularly belittled, criticized, swore and screamed at employees, to the point that one woman confessed to crying for 45 minutes after an encounter”, the State of Oregon is now seeking […]
From The Oregonian, September 18, 2013 The last time Nick Teixeira saw Damon Coates, he shot Coates in the face. When they met on Wednesday, Teixeira handed Coates a religious medallion and asked for forgiveness. It was a rare, if not unprecedented, moment that followed a hearing at the Oregon State Hospital, where Teixeira has […]
By Hannah Hoffman, Statesman Journal, July 25, 2013 Mary Claire Buckley, former director of the Psychiatric Security Review Board, regularly belittled, criticized, swore and screamed at employees, to the point that one woman confessed to crying for 45 minutes after an encounter and another employee told investigators they “had never had a job this bad.” […]
By Yuxing Zheng, The Oregonian, June 18, 2013 The executive director of the Psychiatric Security Review Board has resigned. Mary Claire Buckley‘s resignation is effective as of Aug. 15, board chairwoman Kate Lieber said at the board’s meeting Tuesday evening. The terms were not released. Buckley has been on paid administrative leave since May 2 […]
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