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Recent settlements against Portland police surpass $6.7 million

The city paid for 218 bodily injury and property damage claims against police since 2020 The city of Portland spent almost $6.75 million resolving claims against the Portland Police Bureau since 2020, including over $3 million settling wrongful death clai ...

28 Jun 2023 - Piper McDaniel
I Am M.O.R.E. empowers Portland youth

The organization – with a focus on equity, trauma and social-emotional learning – sees the potential of its youth to lead When Justice English walked into journalism class as a high school junior five years ago, she met a teacher who changed her life: S. ...

26 Apr 2023 - Ellen Clarke
ODOC fails to disclose cause of more than 63% of in-custody deaths

State agencies can’t agree on who’s responsible. Experts say this is a transparency problem. Federal laws require state prisons to track all in-custody deaths, but a Street Roots investigation shows these reports are often incomplete in Oregon. Street Roo ...

28 Dec 2022 - Piper McDaniel
New, innovative project offers lifeline to youths after foster care

Ascending Flow uses music and mentorship to support youth aging out of Oregon’s foster care system Outside a building bathed in colorful graffiti along Southeast 122nd Avenue in Portland’s Mill Park neighborhood, several young men sporting tattoos, high t ...

7 Dec 2022 - Libby Dowsett
Opinion l Mental Health Association of Portland tells City Council its plan for mass encampments is costly, inhumane and ineffective

The Mental Health Association of Portland opposes city of Portland’s camps for people who are homeless, as described in five resolutions passed by four of five City Council members The Mental Health Association of Portland opposes the city of Portland’s c ...

16 Nov 2022 - Mental Health A...
Guaranteed basic income program promotes healing, resilience among Black Portlanders

Brown Hope aims to support Black communities through basic income programs The local nonprofit that distributed millions of dollars to Black Portlanders throughout the pandemic is launching a new program to further support Black Portlanders — three years ...

24 Aug 2022 - Mia Ryder-Marks
Opinion | History of Portland’s Homeless Alcohol and Drug Intervention Network

A carceral response to public inebriates — once narrowly focused on low-income people downtown — caused people to search for a better way, fueling the creation of HADIN In the mid-1980s, the most dire problem on the streets of Portland (from the point of ...

6 Jul 2022 - Jason Renaud
LaQuida Landford's innovative vision for her community

Landford was already distributing resources in her community, but now she hopes to expand her reach with a hub where people can go to receive vital resources In 2018, LaQuida Landford returned from a trip to her father’s home country, Belize, with a clear ...

26 Jan 2022 - Latisha Jensen
Domicile Unknown Report found 126 deaths in 2020

Drug overdoses and medical conditions contributed to the largest number of deaths among the 126 people who died while homeless in Multnomah County in 2020, highlighting need for services, permanent housing. The last time Hope Yamasaki saw her son was at t ...

15 Dec 2021 - Latisha Jensen
Salem man held in jail 'on the idea of future crimes he might commit'

Salem man held in jail despite no criminal charges is clear violation of civil rights, attorneys say A 27-year-old Salem man with a developmental disability and mental illness has been held in the Marion County Jail for more than two months with no crimin ...

18 Aug 2021 - Henry Brannan