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Oregon’s new profiling ban

Individual instances of profiling are difficult to prove, so the state will rely on patterns A bill prohibiting profiling by law enforcement in Oregon is on its way to becoming law after passing Oregon’s house and senate. It doesn’t criminalize profiling, ...

10 Jul 2015 - Emily Green
The kids from the hall: Oregon Youth Authority rethinks how it manages troubled youths

In 1891, George Breckonridge was the first juvenile to be placed into custody at the reform school for boys in Woodburn, Ore. His crime was stealing a newspaper off his neighbor’s porch. Fast-forward 124 years, and the population within the walls of what ...

10 Jan 2015 - Emily Green
ICE case reveals complexities in local policies

The knocks came early. At around 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 23, Daniel Hernandez Garcia and his girlfriend of five years, Josefina Aguiniga, answered the door of their Southeast Portland home to find two officers. “They told me they were police officers and they w ...

4 Mar 2014 - Nathan Gilles
Office of Equity will ensure means for a healthy community

Office of Equity will ensure means for a healthy community By Andrew Riley, Contributing Columnist Over the past 10 years, dozens of studies have highlighted the growing disparities between Portland’s increasingly diverse communities: rental discriminatio ...

9 Sep 2011 - Street Roots