Street Roots asked Ethan Knight and Mike Schmidt how they'd change the low prosecution rate for domestic violence cases QUESTION: The last time we crunched the numbers, we found that among Oregon’s five largest counties, Multnomah County has the lowe ...
2 May 2020 - Street Roots
Street Roots asked Ethan Knight and Mike Schmidt how they could improve the community court QUESTION: Do you see any opportunities for improvement in the way Multnomah County’s Community Court functions? It could be shaped many ways, such as the service m ...
2 May 2020 - Street Roots
Street Roots asked Ethan Knight and Mike Schmidt if they'd eliminate fines and fees for people in poverty QUESTION: People experiencing homelessness and poverty disproportionately interface with the criminal justice system, producing an additional la ...
2 May 2020 - Street Roots
Street Roots asked Ethan Knight and Mike Schmidt if they'd release defendants without bail for nonviolent offenses QUESTION: Will you commit during this interview to releasing people who are pretrial for nonviolent offenses without bail, should you w ...
2 May 2020 - Street Roots
Street Roots asked Ethan Knight and Mike Schmidt how they'd run the DA's Office differently than the incumbent QUESTION: What’s the biggest difference we’ll see between the way you would run the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office and th ...
2 May 2020 - Street Roots
Street Roots’ updated guide provides a complete list of services, as well as notices related to COVID-19 Street Roots is delighted to announce the release of a new online version of the Rose City Resource at rosecityresource.streetroots.org. With COVID-19 ...
1 May 2020 - Street Roots
Oregon Initiative Proposal 44 would create the Drug Addiction and Recovery Act. Here's what that means. Editor's note: This story was updated March 10 to reflect the more recent signature tally. Organizers behind the initiative to reduce the pun ...
6 Mar 2020 - Street Roots
Community members are invited to join conversations with service providers, community advocates and people with lived experiences Mayor Ted Wheeler will host a series of four community conversations about homelessness. The first event is Saturday, Feb. 1 ...
31 Jan 2020 - Street Roots
We marked our 20th anniversary, launched the Portland Street Response campaign, delivered powerful journalism, and more PDF: Read the full 2019 Annual Report Dear Street Roots readers, 2019 was a monumental year at Street Roots. We marked 20 years of our ...
17 Jan 2020 - Street Roots
A sampling of Street Roots' conversations from the past year Jan. 11 Walter Cole aka Darcelle XV “There were gay bashings, there were all sorts of things happening, and we, of course, did not want to get hurt. We didn’t walk in the streets. We didn’t ...
27 Dec 2019 - Street Roots