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Statements from coalition members of Oregonians for Safety and …

WEBStatements from coalition members of Oregonians for Safety and Recovery on passage of HB 4002 in the Oregon House

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Leading Pro-Choice Organizations Call for Continued

WEBPORTLAND, OREGON — Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon, Pro-Choice Oregon, the ACLU of Oregon, and Forward Together Action released the following joint statement in response to today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization to overturn nearly 50 years of precedent and eliminate …

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Changing the Mental Health Emergency Response System in …

WEBJulian Clark, Staff Attorney, ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project Brian Dimmick, Senior Staff Attorney, Disability Rights Program, ACLU Kelly Simon, Legal Director, ACLU of Oregon On October 24, 2022 at 2 a.m., 27-year-old Joshua Wesley called a crisis help line from his home in Washington County, Oregon, just west of …

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Why We’re Taking the Fight for Trans Youth Health Care to the …

WEBIn this case, we have the honor of representing LW, a 15-year-old transgender girl, and her mother Samantha Williams. Like nearly 100,000 families with transgender kids ages 13 to 17 who now live in a state that has banned their health care, LW and her parents face the risk of either being denied the care they and their doctor …

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Drug Treatment is Infrastructure ACLU of Oregon

WEBCOVID-19 was not the only deadly public health crisis of the past year and a half. The overdose epidemic killed a record 93,000 Americans in 2020, ravaging communities across the country, and may be on track to be worse in 2021.While the nation has combated COVID-19 by prioritizing medical research, vaccine production, treatment development, …

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How Oregon’s Justice System Leaders Can Limit the Spread of …

WEBMarch 20, 2020 - 7:15am. The ACLU of Oregon is seriously concerned about the impact of COVID-19 on incarcerated people and legal system workers in our state. 14,000 Oregonians, many elderly and already in poor health, are currently confined in unhygienic, small, and densely populated jail and prison cells. Our justice system can’t afford to

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Lawmakers reverse Oregon’s public health approach to addiction: …

WEBToday the Joint Interim Committee on Addiction and Community Safety announced that they plan to reverse the state’s public health approach to addiction and impose a criminal penalty for people not able to access treatment. The ACLU-OR and Oregonians for Safety and Recovery released this statement.

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Statement from Oregonians for Safety & Recovery in response to

WEBRecriminalization will harm people – especially Black, brown, and poor people – and make drug addiction and homelessness more difficult and expensive to solve.

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Jackie Yerby, she/her ACLU of Oregon

WEBJackie leads the ACLU of Oregon’s community engagement work. She is looking forward to working with the entire ACLU of Oregon community and with community partners to strengthen our democracy. Having most recently served as a policy advisor to Governor Kate Brown during the COVID-19 pandemic, racial justice uprising, and behavioral …

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Covid-19 Response ACLU of Oregon

WEBThe spread of COVID-19 is an enormous challenge to the 950,000 Oregonians with disabilities in all corners of the state. We teamed up with Disability Rights Oregon, FACT Oregon, and the Oregon Self Advocacy Coalition, to urge Gov. Kate Brown and other government officials to ttake action to meet the needs of Oregonians with disabilities, …

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Prison Is Tough on Kids Too. One Vital Oregon Program Helps …

WEBIt has been updated to include the current bill number. An Oregon mom shares how the Family Preservation Project helped her stay connected with kids while she was in prison. Legislators should vote YES on SB 720 to provide funding to continue this vital program that strengthens families and reduces trauma for children.

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Solutions for Safe and Just Communities ACLU of Oregon

WEBOregon voters want these real solutions: Increasing addiction treatment with recovery housing. Increasing affordable housing and reducing poverty. Creating more safe and accessible shelters and temporary housing options to help homeless people into short-term housing. Creating work programs for trash clean-up and neighborhood revitalization

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Reproductive Justice Community Hub ACLU of Oregon

WEBText reads: Stay in the loop with our community reproductive justice hub: resources, information, action. The Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, and taken away our federal constitutional right to abortion. Abortion is still legal and safe in Oregon, but we must use this moment to organize and get ready for the work ahead. 1. ENGAGE …

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Support the Oregon Reproductive Health Equity Act

WEBThe Reproductive Health Equity Act, HB 3391, establishes the right to safe and legal abortion in Oregon law and removes barriers to reproductive health services by eliminating out-of-pocket costs, filling gaps in reproductive health coverage for those categorically excluded from health programs due to citizenship status, and by prohibiting

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Supreme Court opinion expanding legal immunity for law …

WEBIn a series of decisions in the 1980s, however, the Court began watering down this remedy —along with similar remedies against state and local officers—with the creation of qualified immunity.. Qualified immunity shields government agents from liability for violating constitutional rights, unless those rights are already “clearly …

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Reproductive Justice ACLU of Oregon

WEBReproductive Justice. Decisions about contraception, marriage, and child-rearing are among the most intimate and important decisions people make. Since its inception in 1920, the ACLU has recognized that personal privacy and reproductive freedoms are among our most important constitutional liberties. The ACLU was the first national organization

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LAW OFFICE OF TARA HERIVEL, LLC 811 S.W. NAITO …

WEB1 LAW OFFICE OF TARA HERIVEL, LLC 811 S.W. NAITO PARKWAY, SUITE 420 PORTLAND, OREGON 97204 PHONE: (503) 893-5525 E-MAIL: [email protected] WWW.HERIVELDEFENSE.COM LICENSED IN OREGON AND WASHINGTON Updated 4/9/20 INSTRUCTIONS FOR FILING YOUR …

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Leading advocates in Oregon announce a historic ballot measure …

WEBApril 19, 2023FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContacts: Rose King, [email protected], 503.863.1363;Blair Stenvick, [email protected], 503.756.5828Leading advocates in Oregon announce a historic ballot measure campaign to affirm equal rights and personal freedoms for all Oregonians Equal Rights for All …

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Nurse Kaci Hickox Sues Over New Jersey Quarantine During Ebola …

WEBA year after her unlawful detention, Hickox challenges New Jersey’s unfair, unconstitutional quarantine October 22, 2015 - NEWARK, N.J. - The ACLU of New Jersey has teamed up with two New York law firms - Siegel Teitelbaum & Evans and McLaughlin & Stern - to represent Kaci Hickox, the nurse who was detained last year in Newark after …

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In the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

WEBiii . a. Arthur B. Spitzer – American Civil Liberties Union of the. Nation’s Capital. b. Lee Rowland and Esha Bhandari – American Civil Liberties

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