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A Multnomah County jury awarded a Black former civil rights director at the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries $1.7 million Monday, finding she faced racial discrimination, a hostile workplace
Legislation aimed at reducing deadly drug overdoses, by legalizing fentanyl test strips in Florida, has passed the state Senate and House, and is on its way to Gov. Ron DeSantis’ desk.
The state of Oregon is paying $150,000 to settle a lawsuit on behalf of former Hood River County District Attorney John Sewell, who was accused of trumping up a criminal charge against a hospital security manager because her staff had placed a parking notice on his wife’s car. The settlement was filed Wednesday, the same day that the Oregon State Bar filed a formal complaint against Sewell, stemming from his attempted prosecution of Richardson.
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With overdoses and deaths caused by fentanyl continuing to surge in Florida and the U.S., there's a renewed push to legalize inexpensive test strips that would allow someone to see if a drug they're about to take is laced with fentanyl.
There have been some interesting developments on the Taser front since I wrote my feature on the weapons last month. On November 26, Judge Paul Papak issued an opinion on the Fouad Kaady case—Kaady was a 27-year-old Gresham man who died at the hands of Police in Gresham Sandy shortly before this reporter got to Portland, in September 2005. Kaady had been in an auto accident, but when police arrived on the scene, instead of...