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Portland Commissioners Rene Gonzalez and Dan Ryan want to make significant changes to the charter reform measure voters easily passed last November, threatening to undermine years of work from community advocates and city of Portland staff. According to the Oregonian, Gonzalez and Ryan are exploring a ballot measure referral that would call for several major changes to the new government structure and ranked-choice election system detailed in the charter reform measure. The Oregonian states that...

The fallout continues from Multnomah County's decision to hand out free drug paraphernalia to fentanyl users, even after the county put the program on pause.

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Portland's next general election in November 2024 will herald the beginning of a new form of local government, wiping the current City Council roster clean. Since the charter reform measure passed, many Portlanders have wondered what current City Council members would do, come reelection time. The first to answer that question has been Commissioner Mingus Mapps, who announced his Portland mayoral candidacy last week, after filing paperwork to participate in the city's small donor election...

Bias and hate incident reports in Oregon have surged by 178% since 2020, according to the state Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Unit. In 2019, Oregon lawmakers passed Senate Bill 577. The measure called on ODOJ to establish a non-emergency hotline for residents who wanted to report bias crimes to trauma-informed operators rather than law enforcement. SB 577 also required the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to release data on the reported incidents on July 1 every year.