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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 […]
From The Oregonian, Dec. 19, 2013 The former head of Oregon’s Psychiatric Security Review Board, who resigned while under investigation, is now working for Portland police, responsible for their compliance with federally mandated reforms. Mary Claire Buckley, 59, resigned from her $99, 636 state board position this past summer amid complaints from her staff to […]
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 […]
By Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian, June 11, 2013 In 2009, lawmakers crafted a way to help the estimated 29,000 people whose mental health histories disqualify them under federal law from buying firearms in Oregon: a formal mechanism to ask for their gun rights back. Four years later, with a two-year budget of $576,184 and a […]
By Yuxing Zheng, The Oregonian, May 14, 2013 The executive director of the Psychiatric Security Review Board is on paid administrative leave amid an investigation of board management, state officials said Monday. Department of Administrative Services officials launched a review of the board’s management April 25 at the request of Kate Lieber, the chairwoman of […]
By Hannah Hoffman, Statesman Journal, May 13, 2013 Mary Claire Buckley, the executive director of the state Psychiatric Security Review Board, has been placed on paid administrative leave, according to the Department of Administrative Services. Spokeswoman Amy Velez said the reason could not be disclosed because it is a personnel matter. Juliet Follansbee, the program […]
By Jane Stebbins, Curry Coastal Pilot, March 29, 2013 ColumbiaCare hosted a housewarming party Monday afternoon, inviting all its neighbors to check out its new digs on Cove Road in Brookings Monday. The five-bedroom house blends in with its neighbors on the block, and starting next month will be home to five residents — three […]
By Dan Tilkin, KATU.com, Feb. 10, 2012 After 18 months of care, Matthew Ingle, 21, had earned the privilege of taking a supervised walk outside the Oregon State Hospital in Salem. Doctors and therapists at the secure facility that treats the mentally ill thought Ingle was progressing well in his treatment for schizophrenia. On Sept. […]
By Rick Bella, The Oregonian, Wednesday, February 01, 2012 The young man who shot a Clackamas County sheriff’s sergeant in the face nine years ago will be evaluated for release from the Oregon State Hospital, a state panel agreed Wednesday. After a three-hour hearing in Salem, the state Psychiatric Security Review Board decided that 24-year-old […]
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