2+ hour, 26+ min ago   (330+ words) As legal battles threaten the viability of state laws that prevent federal immigration agents from covering their faces, Oregon lawmakers on Tuesday took a major step toward entering the fray themselves. "There's a question whether you can tell the feds…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (381+ words) Terri Lee Brown, who the Oregon Supreme Court found was wrongly returned to prison after an earlier release, has sued Gov. Tina Kotek, Washington County District Attorney Kevin Barton, clemency coordinator Nicole Townsend and other officials for $10,000,000 in damages. Brown…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (530+ words) Since 2012, the Humboldt County Superior Court has covered 83% of the cost of entrance security, including X-ray machines, metal detectors and private security to screen people coming in via two entrances. The Sheriff's Office covered the other 17%. But in July, the…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (518+ words) Federal immigration agents arrested at least 1,100 people in Oregon this year, immigration experts estimate " a surge from the 113 arrests recorded in all of 2024. In August, the Trump administration said it would "come after" states like Oregon with laws preventing local…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (925+ words) Briana Fair, a mental health clinician with the San Mateo Police Department, received a dozen voicemails from the same distressed caller over a single weekend this month. She knew the voice. It was her client, saying that a celebrity has…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (505+ words) Jury selection is complete and a federal trial gets underway Monday for Milwaukee County judge Hannah Dugan. She is accused of helping a man try to evade arrest by immigration authorities at the county courthouse last April. A grand jury…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (638+ words) Immigration enforcement throughout the country has slowly ramped up since the start of Trump's second term, but detentions in Oregon jumped dramatically in October, increasing by at least 550% compared to previous months, according to figures from the Portland Immigrant Rights…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (576+ words) A Texas company that touts itself'as having "the longest standing detention center contract with ICE" is looking to hire detention officers in Newport " the latest sign that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement may be planning a new outpost on the Oregon…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (396+ words) Jackson County officials are again weighing how to expand the county jail. The biggest hurdle may not be construction costs, but how to pay to run a larger facility. When the Jackson County Jail opened in 1981, it was already too…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (562+ words) Shasta County supervisors voted Oct. 24 to support a letter opposing a proposed $200 million behavioral health campus " a move that could jeopardize the project's chances for state funding. Shasta County Health and Human Services director Christy Coleman disagrees. In a letter…...