The Oregon Department of Transportation, Multnomah County and a group of homeless individuals have reached a settlement in a lawsuit challenging notice policies for camp sweeps on ODOT property. In the end, the ball moves very little, but the agreement re ...
1 Aug 2014 - Joanne Zuhl
The Oregon Law Center has taken up the case of a group of homeless people who say they have been wronged by the Oregon Department of Transportation when it cleared out their encampment in Southeast Portland. The suit maintains that the law requires ODOT t ...
18 Dec 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Technically speaking, he was a transient white male, age 59, declared dead from natural causes at 9:18 p.m., Oct. 7, in East Portland. To his friends, he was Alvin Smith. He lived with about 50 other people at the controversial camp along Johnson Creek at ...
22 Oct 2013 - Joanne Zuhl