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Anyone convicted of a bias crime committed in an Oregon state park or on state waterways would be banned from those areas for five years under a bill being considered in the Legislature. People convicted of committing a bias crime while hunting, angling, trapping or taking shellfish could have their licenses, tags and permits revoked for five years. A bias crime, also known as a hate crime, is a crime motivated by bias against another person’s race, color, disability, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity. Gov. Kate Brown’s Racial Justice Council’s Environmen...

North Portland’s red house and surrounding neighborhood linger in uneasy limbo after tense standoff OregonLive.com 2/20/2021 © Dave Killen | The Oregonian/OregonLive/oregonlive.com/TNS Scenes from the red house in North Portland. On a recent afternoon, a half-dozen people came and went from the boarded-up red house on North Mississippi Avenue that just two months ago served as the catalyst for an explosive standoff between activists and city leaders. People stayed warm under a tarp jutting from the back of the dilapidated two-story house. A handwritten sign listed chores including “o...

Cannabis Social Equity Bill Introduced HB 3112 Would Use Cannabis Tax Dollars to Repair Harm in Communities Due to Cannabis Criminalization News provided by Share this article Share this article PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Repairing the harm from decades of inequity from the War on Drugs is the goal of the Cannabis Social Equity Act introduced this week by a coalition of legislators in the Oregon State Legislature. HB 3112 is the culmination of months of work led by former State Rep. Akasha Lawrence Spencer including numerous cannabis companies, the NuLeaf Project, the Orego...

Repairing the harm from decades of inequity from the War on Drugs is the goal of the Cannabis Social Equity Act introduced this week by a coalition of legislators in the Oregon State Legislature. House Bill (HB) 3112 is the culmination of months of work led by former State Rep. Akasha Lawrence Spence including numerous cannabis companies, the NuLeaf Project, the Oregon Cannabis Association, the Oregon Retailers of Cannabis Association, the City of Portland, Urban League, and law students from Willamette University. This groundbreaking legislation would have a significantly positive effect on ...

Police Chief Chuck Lovell’s two-part strategy also calls for greater community oversight of the patrol team and its tactics, as well as monthly reports on their investigative stops and searches.