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
COMMENTARY | Partnership for Safety and Justice’s Cleo Tung believes in the power of philanthropy Last month, as I was packing up my things to move to Portland, I discovered a box of old school projects in the garage. In it was a picture I had drawn in th ...
12 Nov 2015 - Cleo Tung
Acts of kindness today ripple into the future, says Partnership for Safety and Justice’s Kerry Naughton Yesterday, the unthinkable happened. Again. I’m writing Partnership for Safety and Justice ’s guest column just after midnight Oct. 2, hours after a 26 ...
8 Oct 2015 - Kerry Naughton
Partnership for Safety and Justice and our allies made important legislative progress in the area of smarter public safety Each legislative session has its own unique feel, but few people at the Capitol could have anticipated the roller-coaster ride of Or ...
6 Aug 2015 - Shannon Wight
A Utah-based harm reduction advocate once said to me, “I love cops.” That surprised me — just a little bit. If you aren’t familiar with the “harm reduction” movement and its philosophy, think of syringe exchange programs and safer-sex education. Basicall ...
20 Jul 2015 - Andy Ko
For months, we have heard story after story in the national media about young people — often young people of color — who have been abused by our criminal justice system. The latest story, out of New York, was about Kalief Browder, a young man who was arre ...
19 Jun 2015 - Gina Anzaldúa
Diverse interests come together to support the state’s promising program for criminal justice reform On May 14, Oregon’s Office of Economic Analysis released its March 2015 quarterly review of the state’s economic health. (You can read the entire report, ...
25 May 2015 - Shannon Wight
“We can stitch them up, but we can’t make them well.” These heart-rending words came from Alicia Boccellari, Ph.D., director of the Trauma Recovery Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center, during a presentation at the f ...
1 May 2015 - Heather McDowell
Oregon looks to model Washington's Family Offender Sentencing Alternative to allow certain parents to serve sentences in community supervision rather than prison Oregon has recently committed to an exciting new path to improve its public safety syste ...
27 Mar 2015 - Shannon Wight and Elizabeth Hilliard
In 2013, Oregon lawmakers changed our public safety course, putting us on track to create safer, healthier communities. The Justice Reinvestment Act (HB 3194) of 2013 averted our need to start building a new prison in Oregon, saving taxpayers an estimated ...
6 Mar 2015 - Kerry Naughton