The request for the court to set aside the lawsuit ruling was due in part because its owner and attorney forgot about the case The city of Portland’s primary private contractor for sweeps quietly lost a wrongful death lawsuit in January 2022, court record ...
22 May 2024 - Terah Bennett and K. Rambo
Portland City Council passes amended law seeking to jail and fine homeless Portlanders after court injunction halted 2023 version Mayor Ted Wheeler and the city of Portland are again pursuing fining and jailing homeless Portlanders for behavior resulting ...
15 May 2024 - K. Rambo
Multnomah County’s 2022 Domicile Unknown report finds 315 homeless residents died amid surge in overdoses, homicides, self-harm deaths and traffic fatalities Editor’s note: This story discusses drug overdoses, self-harm and violence. A record of at least ...
20 Dec 2023 - K. Rambo
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt told Mayor Ted Wheeler the district attorney’s office is not able to fulfill its role as described in the ordinance banning most sleeping in public in a Nov. 6 letter. The Multnomah County District Attorney’ ...
9 Nov 2023 - K. Rambo and Jeremiah Hayden
Homeless Portlanders, service providers prepare for Nov. 13 sleeping ban enforcement while the mayor's office goes quiet Less than two weeks before the city is set to enforce its wide-reaching public sleeping ban Nov. 13 — days after nighttime temper ...
8 Nov 2023 - K. Rambo
In a city where homeless people are already much more likely to face arrest than housed people, officials have a ‘new’ proposal: warn, fine and arrest homeless Portlanders Update: Portland City Council passed the ordinance discussed in this story June 7. ...
6 Jun 2023 - K. Rambo
Mayor Ted Wheeler declared a state of emergency July 22 due to the impending danger of extreme heat, but city contractors continued sweeping homeless encampments until at least July 25 at noon While city and county agencies, as well as mutual aid groups, ...
3 Aug 2022 - K. Rambo
Street Services Coordination Center offering fewer shelter referrals as sweeps increase Crystal Kelly has lived in a tent near a bus station in Old Town for months. Homeless for a few years now, she’s been trying, as she puts it, “to get clean, to stay ou ...
20 Jul 2022 - Tyler Walicek and K. Rambo
Unhoused Portlanders swept using the tactic say it undermines safety, stability and human dignity What’s the difference between moving with one hour’s notice and 72 hours’ notice? “A lot,” DJ Husar, Street Roots vendor, said. The city swept Husar, an unho ...
6 Jul 2022 - K. Rambo
The city extends the legal window for sweeps by posting and reposting encampments, which can cause distress and logistical issues for unhoused Portlanders Imagine being told you have between three and 10 days to move, with no way of knowing if the time wi ...
22 Jun 2022 - K. Rambo