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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 […]
From the Oregonian, October 31, 2014 The word “trust” kept coming up in a Portland City Council hearing last week, but none of the commissioners should feel flattered. Speaker after speaker addressed the city council, pleading with them not to appeal a federal judge’s authority over the city’s police-reforms settlement. For too long, they said, the […]
From the Portland Mercury, October 30, 2014 There was some talk during a Portland City Council hearing yesterday that commissioners might fulfill a major part of the city’s police reform deal with the feds—choosing an independent “compliance officer/community liaison”—as soon as next week. Commissioner Amanda Fritz, who’s been running point on the hiring process, said […]
From the Portland Mercury, October 22, 2014 As expected, the Portland City Council tonight has agreed to pursue a narrowly framed, but potentially troublesome appeal of the city’s police reform agreement with the US Department of Justice—casting aside advocates’ and lawyers’ insistent concerns that doing so would shatter their sense of trust in city hall. […]
From the Portland Mercury, October 22, 2014 The legal drama over police reform in Portland—seemingly put to rest in August, when a federal judge finally approved the city’s nearly two-year-old settlement agreement with the US Department of Justice—has been revived. On Wednesday, October 22, Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Amanda Fritz will ask their colleagues […]
Today Portland’s City Council will consider filing an appeal to DOJ v City of Portland, the long simmering lawsuit which in 2011 found the Portland Police Bureau has a “pattern and practice” of harming persons in a mental health crisis. City Attorney Ellen Osoinach wants to amend the decision of Federal Judge Michael Simon, who […]
From the Portland Mercury, October 17, 2014 The legal drama over police reform in Portland isn’t quite over yet. Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Amanda Fritz are going to ask their colleagues to consider pushing back at one of the more contentious elements of a federal judge’s decision to accept a package of police reforms […]
By Jason Renaud and Jenny Westberg Kristi Jamison, a Portland leader in mental health and disability advocacy – as well as a genuinely wonderful person, whom we proudly call our colleague and friend – has received a prestigious and highly deserved city honor: a 2014 Spirit of Portland Award. City Commissioner Amanda Fritz will present […]
From the Portland Mercury, October 7, 2014 Most people who follow police issues in Portland had a pretty good sense Police Chief Mike Reese would be ready to hand over the reins once a federal judge approved a long-awaited police reform settlement between the city and the US Department of Justice. But that’s not to […]
Willamette Week, Sept. 28, 2014 The family of City Commissioner Amanda Fritz celebrated the life of Dr. Steven Fritz at a public memorial service at Terry Schrunk Plaza downtown [the evening of September 28]. All are invited to attend the 5 p.m. ceremony. Steven Fritz died Wednesday morning in a collision on Interstate 5 on […]
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