Margaret Carter – Mental Health PDX

Multnomah County’s response to Senate Bill 111

April 5, 2011

Senate Bill 111 was one of the many under-reported and useful responses by state government to what happened to James Chasse in 2006. Pushed through the Oregon Senate by Avel Gordly, Margaret Carter and Hardy Myers, the law requires each county to form a Use-of-Force planning committee, and to have a plan. READ – this […]

Funds stay to treat addicted mothers

June 4, 2009

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From The Oregonian, June 1 2009 Instead of turning away addicted mothers and their young children, Nancy Anderson is once again gearing up to accept them into one of the state’s few residential drug and alcohol treatment programs for such women. The normally tough director of the Letty Owings Center had been awash with worry […]

For woman shot by police, prayers, protests for justice

May 12, 2003

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From The Oregonian, May 12, 2003 They gathered on Mother’s Day to pray and protest. The prayers were for Kendra James, a 21-year-old mother of two shot dead by a Portland police officer May 5. The prayers were sweet and compelling and full of heart. The protests were forceful and filled with a deep concern […]