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David Rogers: ACLU of Oregon's role in the resistance

What the ACLU of Oregon is doing to defend immigrants against Trump’s executive orders As President Donald Trump’s executive orders fly out of the White House at an exhausting rate, many are looking to the American Civil Liberties Union as the most obviou ...

2 Feb 2017 - Emily Green
The prosecutor: the most powerful person in the room

As Multnomah County grapples with widespread inequities in its criminal justice system, heads turn toward the D.A. Prosecutors wield a tremendous amount of power in the courtroom, and in an effort to keep it that way, they systematically block attempts to ...

21 Apr 2016 - Emily Green
ACLU’s David Rogers: Communities divided by politics of fear

The new ACLU of Oregon director also sounds the alarm on pending ballot measures, digital privacy, criminal justice As a child, watching the “CBS Evening News” was routine for David Rogers. Each night, his family gathered around a television set in their ...

21 Jan 2016 - Emily Green
Oregon’s legislature grapples with racial equity

Last month on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, a coalition of advocacy organizations presented findings from Facing Race: the 2013 Oregon Legislative Report Card on Racial Equity. The report is designed to help legislators better understand how to addr ...

15 Feb 2014 - David Rogers
Better solutions are on the front end, not the back

When discussing re-entry barriers with a formerly incarcerated person a few years ago, I was struck by the need for Oregon to grapple with a rhetorical question the young man was posing. “When will we actually put corrections in the Department of Correcti ...

8 Oct 2013 - David Rogers
Kids deserve better than to be denied a second chance

Regular readers of our column will know that Partnership for Safety and Justice and our members worked very hard to help shape the recommendations that the Governor’s Commission on Public Safety made to the Oregon Legislature. The result was House Bill 31 ...

16 Jun 2013 - David Rogers
The false choice between victims and sentencing reform

By David Rogers and Kerry Naughton, Contributing Columnists America’s criminal justice debate is broken in two. With just 5 percent of the world’s population, the U.S. leads the world in the use of incarceration with 25 percent of the planet’s prison popu ...

22 Feb 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Lawmakers have opportunity to flatline prison growth

By David Rogers, Contributing Columnist On Nov. 30, Gov. John Kitzhaber released his proposed budget for 2013-15. The budget included no money for prison expansion — despite the fact that the state projects it will need more than 2,000 new prison beds at ...

23 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff