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Month: July 2014
Forensic psychologist for Parole Board runs into credibility problems, and it’s not the first time
The Oregonian, July 25, 2014 A forensic psychologist who has analyzed some of Oregon’s most dangerous criminal minds — from murderers to rapists — has run into potential credibility issues. Last week, KOIN-6 reported that Frank Colistro admitted he made up stories about being shot twice while trying to talk armed men out of homes as […]
Keeping the mentally ill out of jail
From the Chinook Observer, July 25, 2014 Law enforcement officers see them every day: people in the grip of serious mental illness. Officers encounter them on the streets, some strung out, some committing crimes while glimpsing life through a faulty filter. Options for police are limited. Mentally ill inmates clog the state’s jails and prisons, […]
Judge orders SSA to pay $42,000 in lawsuit over sudden closure of Safety Net of Oregon
The Oregonian, July 24, 2014 A U.S. District Court judge has ordered the Social Security Administration to pay $42,000 in attorney’s fees to the Multnomah County residents who sued the agency, claiming it failed to protect elderly and disabled residents from losing their benefits after the company that managed their money abruptly closed. The order […]
Caught Off Guard: Cops Knew Nicholas Davis Was Sick, Didn’t Expect an Attack
From the Portland Mercury, July 23, 2014 Within moments of encountering Nicholas Glendon Davis early June 12, it was clear to two Portland cops the man probably had a mental illness. The wide-eyed 23-year-old was “spinning” between agitated and calm, Officer Robert Brown testified before a grand jury that would eventually clear him in the […]
Grand Jury Transcripts Released in Springwater Corridor Police Shooting
From the Portland Mercury, July 18, 2014 The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office this afternoon put out the transcripts—some 170-plus pages—of the grand jury probe this month that cleared a Portland police officer in the June 12 shooting of a homeless man, struggling with mental illness, along the Springwater Corridor trail. READ – Multnomah County […]
28 Seconds : The Killing of Fouad Kaady
Eds. Note – the text below is from The Portland Indymedia Video Collective. Their online film was an important inspiration to the makers of Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse. In the early afternoon of September 8, 2005, police encountered Fouad Kaady shortly after he was in an accident that left him […]
90 Corvallis residents parade silently around courthouse, thinking of those lost to suicide and how to save the next one
Corvallis Gazette-Times, July 20, 2014 As about 90 people stood in front of the Benton County Courthouse in Corvallis Saturday morning, a father climbed the building’s stone steps, stepped to the microphone and shared his pain. “My son Kevin killed himself a year ago on Monday,” Jeff McDaniel told the crowd gathered for a march […]
Recreational therapy makes a difference for OSH patients
Statesman Journal, July 19, 2014 “Down, down, sideways.” Guy Forson repeats the words over and over in a way that is almost soothing. Nick Stalheim uses a scalpel to follow Forson’s directions, cutting squares out of a flat piece of clay that he intends to make into a castle for his eventual fish tank. Stalheim’s […]
BOLI complaint, filed after woman’s service dogs were barred from store, will go before judge
The Register-Guard, July 18, 2014 A yearlong dispute between a Springfield woman and a convenience store owner that the woman says barred her service dogs from entering the store is headed to a labor judge. Springfield resident Michel Hilt-Hayden filed a complaint with the state Bureau of Labor and Industries against Kara Johnson, owner of […]