A Jan. 11 memo suggests Gonzalez halted tent distribution to align with mayor’s camping ban Foreshadowing things to come, Portland Commissioner Rene Gonzalez halted tent distribution by Portland Fire and Rescue personnel, including Portland Street Respons ...
2 Aug 2023 - Piper McDaniel
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
The Portland Ombudsman’s office says U visa program needs policy and training updates Editor’s note: This story discusses domestic violence. An investigation shows the Portland Police Bureau wrongly dismissed dozens of visa applications from undocumented ...
21 Jun 2023 - Piper McDaniel
Tenant legal representation is on the ballot in May Voters can weigh in on a watershed moment in the county’s housing crisis with county Measure 26-238. If passed, the measure would levy a capital gains tax to fund legal representation for tenants in all ...
26 Apr 2023 - Piper McDaniel
Among large landlords, data shows at least 35% of Landlord Compensation Fund money went out of state, but the state's tracking system obscures exactly how much In March 2020, at least 676 Oregon households faced the prospect of losing their homes. Ea ...
19 Apr 2023 - Piper McDaniel
The city has settled dozens of claims and lawsuits and more are pending So far, the city of Portland has paid over $2.8 million resolving police use of force lawsuits and claims stemming from the racial justice protests that roiled the city in 2020. The M ...
5 Apr 2023 - Piper McDaniel
Peopled with business representatives, the groups give recommendations to the mayor In late January, the mayor’s office announced a new plan to restore the Central Eastside Industrial District neighborhood. “My office has partnered with the Central Eastsi ...
8 Feb 2023 - Piper McDaniel
Emails with city officials raise questions about what is and isn’t lobbying Sam Adams, then-director of strategy and innovation for Mayor Ted Wheeler, professed optimism in an interview with the newly minted Revitalize Portland Coalition, or RPC, publishe ...
25 Jan 2023 - Piper McDaniel
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
A free browser extension collects crowdsourced data to see how ads show up in users social media feeds and who paid for them to be there When Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016, people were shocked: voters, media, pollsters and analysts al ...
26 Oct 2022 - Piper McDaniel