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August 03 2021 The unionized burger joint in Portland's Lents neighborhood is no longer safe for employees, says Burgerville CEO Jill Taylor. Burgerville has locked the doors of its Lents area eatery in Southeast Portland. The closure — billed as temporary — comes after "many months" of worsening conditions at the neighborhood burger joint, 3504 S.E. 92nd Ave., due to rising problems with crime and vandalism, the company said in an Aug. 3 statement. The iconic Pacific Northwest chain says it hired private security in an effort to improve employee and customer safety, but to no a...

August 03 2021 Portland lawyer Michael Fuller says trackers attached to the belongings show they were wrongfully taken to a local waste transfer station. A local lawyer claims he has ironclad proof that belongings taken during a recent campsite sweep in Portland were unlawfully dumped in the trash. Michael Fuller, who made a last-ditch legal maneuver last week to halt the clearing of tents from Laurelhurst Park, says he surreptitiously attached Apple AirTag tracking devices to 16 personal items with permission from several campers ahead of the clean-up by city contractor Rapid Response ...

City of Portland Originally published on July 28, 2021 1:35 pm On Wednesday, Portland City Council unanimously approved fire bureau protocols that aim to keep homeless individuals from camping in large forested swaths of the city during wildfire season. Following a dramatic uptick in fire calls related to outdoor camping, Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty, who oversees the fire bureau, asked the city fire marshal in April to figure out a humane way to get the numbers down. The fire bureau returned with two proposed protocols it believes will reduce the risk of a devastating blaze. The first p...

by Alex Zielinski • Jun 23, 2021 at 1:20 pm Staff contracted with HUCIRP remove trash and belongings from a SE Oak encampment alongside Laurelhurst Park in November. ALEX ZIELINSKI Portland City Council will consider next week a plan to "de-prioritize" sweeping certain homeless campsites based on their location. The proposed ordinance, drafted by City Commissioner Dan Ryan, directs the city department tasked with clearing homeless encampments on public property to veer away from sweeping camps defined as "low-impact" that are at least: - 150 feet a...