Medford police at Hawthorne Park in Medford, Ore., on Tuesday, Sept. 22 while clearing an encampment of people experiencing homelessness.
Oregon lawmakers hope they are on the brink of ushering the state into a new era of policing oversight, accountability and equity. Among the more than dozen bills being considered are new laws to establish a statewide database of police misconduct, require police departments to submit data to the FBI’s use-of-force database and limit arbitrator decisions in police misconduct cases.
Oregon lawmakers hope they are on the brink of ushering the state into a new era of policing oversight, accountability and equity.
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State board votes to strip Clackamas County deputy of certification for ignoring bobcat trapping rules
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April 21 2021
Feds discuss decision not to pursue charges against West Linn officers involved in 2017 false arrest.
Two months after federal prosecutors decided not to pursue charges against the West Linn police officers involved in the 2017 false arrest of Michael Fesser, some in the West Linn community and others in the Portland area are still disappointed and angry at the decision.
But they also have a bit of hope.
An FBI investigator and the U.S. Attorney s Office for the District of Oregon met with community members to hear their concerns and explain their decision at a virtual meeting April 20.
West Linn police falsely arrested Fesser, a Black Portlander, in 2017 as a favor to Fesser s boss, a friend of then-WLPD Chief Terry Timeus. The boss, Eric Benson, feared Fesser was going to file a lawsuit against him and his southeast Portland towing company for the racial discrimination he said he faced at work.