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BLOG: "I would like to believe we have nothing to hide..."
Sam AdamsMy thanks to Mayor Tom Potter for bringing to light the startling revelation that the local office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation sought to establish a city staff informant inside Portland City Hall. I would like to believe we have nothing to hide and the FBI is welcome to...
Posted by Sam Adams on May 24, 2006
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Driver Distraction Causes Accidents
Sam AdamsWhile I care deeply about creating a cost-effective, environmentally-friendly transportation system that supports a healthy and dynnamic economy and healthy, livable neighborhoods, safety is my number one priority. I believe that one fatality on the road is one too many. That is why I held Portland's first Transportation Safety Summit to get people focused on ways that we can make Portland's streets safer for bicyclists, pedestrians, and motorists alike.
Posted by Sam Adams on April 21, 2006
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Citywide Graffiti Clean-Up Program Saved
Sam AdamsThreatened with even deeper proposed cuts, Mayor Tom Potter and I successfully lobbied the City Council to keep $80,000 in one-time General Fund resources in the Fiscal Year 2005-05 to fund a citywide graffiti abatement program. Related Documents Adopted Budget, City of Portland, Oregon, Fiscal Year 2005-06, Volume One, Bureau...
Posted by Sam Adams on December 29, 2005
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Top 5 Chronic Problem Properties
Jane AmesIdentify and address chronic public safety, code enforcement and neighborhood livability issues on identified chronic nuisance and repeat crime-locations throughout the city: an idea brought to Council by Mayor Tom Potter and Commissioner Randy Leonard in November, 2005. In April, 2004, Sam proposed that the Police Bureau, other city agencies,...
Posted by Jane Ames on December 29, 2005
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"Take Your Valuables With You" automobile crime prevention campaign approved
Jane AmesAlthough downtown Portland has become safer over the last few years, we can and must do more to make it even safer. One strategic area is reduction of car break-ins. Downtown Neighborhood Response Team Officer, Jeff Myers, has learned from experience that the most effective message we can convey is...
Posted by Jane Ames on December 29, 2005
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Citing US Patriot Act provisions, Sam votes to withdraw City from the Joint Terrorism Task Force
Jane AmesIn early January, 2005 the new City Council faced the decision of whether or not to withdraw from the FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). Two Portland Police Officers had been assigned to the JTTF since 1997, and while Council had renewed participation in 2003, Sam had serious reservations about...
Posted by Jane Ames on December 26, 2005
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Audit of City's Police Review Process Funded
Sam AdamsFulfilling a campaign promise, City Commissioner Erik Sten and I proposed $60,000 in one-time funding for an outside review of the City Auditor’s Independent Police Review (IPR) Division. In an effort to improve police accountability to the public, the Portland City Council four years ago passed an ordinance creating the...
Posted by Sam Adams on December 19, 2005
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Public Safety Planning and Budgeting Collaboration Project
Jane AmesPublic safety is one of local government's most sacred and expensive responsibilities. Between Multnomah County and Portland, we spend over $360 million per year on prevention, enforcement, and treatment responsibilities. Sam relentlessly pursued a project in which public safety agencies from both jurisdictions would be budgeted together and operated in...
Posted by Jane Ames on December 19, 2005
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Portland Update: Get Ready for Snow or Ice: Take Transit
Sam AdamsWe are getting prepared; we need you to get prepared, too. This is the information we received today from our weather forcasting service: SPECIAL WEATHER UPDATESUNDAY, 18 DECEMBER, 2005*** Windy, Cold Today, then snow/sleet/ZR tonight! ****** Snowy/sleety/Icy Monday thru Wednesday, then warmer? *** Take transit. THE CITY IN A SNOW...
Posted by Sam Adams on December 18, 2005
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Filed Under Front Page, Office of Transportation, Public Safety, Transportation
BLOG: Thank You, Portland Area Veterans
Sam AdamsThanks for participating in today's 31st Veterans' Day parade. I am honored to be here today. Thanks to the Hollywood Boosters for helping to put on this parade. Thanks also to Jerry Wiley, Sr., the Ross Hollywood Chapel and Veteran’s Day Planning Committee for their efforts on this event. My...
Posted by Sam Adams on November 11, 2005
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Thoughts about the Drug-Free, Prostitution-Free Zone Changes and the Forums
Jane AmesI spent the evening of Nov. 1st at the forum held by Mayor Potter to discuss the current Drug-Free Exclusion and Prostitution-Free Exclusion Zone ordinances and the proposed changes. It was a good crowd of between 125-150 that gathered at Emanuel Temple in North Portland. I join others in thanking...
Posted by Jane Ames on November 2, 2005
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Police Recording System: FIX IT
Jane AmesThe Portland Police Department’s reporting, recording, filing and distribution system must be improved soon. Our focus need to be on what the most efficient path forward is, from right now. It's unacceptable that our officers are spending time handwriting reports which then are routed through an archaic and inefficient process...
Posted by Jane Ames on November 1, 2005
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Car Prowlers are the Ultimate Window Shoppers
Jane AmesSam and PDOT (Portland Department of Transportation), are developing a partnership with the Police Bureau, Smart Park, ONI (the Office of Neighborhood Involvement), and Mayor Potter’s Office. We will be placing signs on the green parking pay stations in the downtown area, printing reminders on parking receipts, and creating signs...
Posted by Jane Ames on November 1, 2005
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Filed Under Downtown Portland, Public Safety, Transportation
City and County will Design a System of Public Safety
Jane AmesCITY, COUNTY, And CITIZENS CRIME COMMISSIONER LAUNCH PUBLIC JOINT BUDGETING SAFETY PARTNERSHIP Introduced by Portland City Commissioner Sam Adams, City Council approved a resolution that puts in motion a process to jointly design and budget for our public safety system according to citizenry's priorities. People do not care about whether...
Posted by Jane Ames on September 28, 2005
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Filed Under Events, Front Page, Good Government, LPSCC, Our Initiatives, Public Safety
BLOG: “Can I have ten 27s and some alcohol swabs,” he says confidently as he puts his used needles into the medical waste bin and picks small bottles of bleach from the bin...
Sam AdamsHe bolts through the door; if I passed him on the sidewalk I would never know that my first needle exchange customer was an intravenous drug user. “Can I have ten 27s and some alcohol swabs,” he says confidently as he puts his used needles into the medical waste bin...
Posted by Sam Adams on September 19, 2005
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Filed Under 100 Hours, Downtown Portland, Front Page, Jobs & Economy, Livability & Environment, Public Safety
The Launching of a Partnership
Jane AmesThe following is a summary of Sam's comments before City Council as he introduced the Public Safety Partnership. “…the fact remains that we are but the agents of the people, and our duty is to them alone and to none other.” Mayor Harry Lane, July 11, 1907 (who is also...
Posted by Jane Ames on September 14, 2005
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Hot Town, Public Safety in the City
Jane AmesPublic safety can be defensive and dramatic: Late night shootings in different parts of the City, robberies or assaults taking place, parties that get out of control and property or people getting hurt, drug deals and abuse, or identity theft destroying people’s lives. The list is long; people’s ability to...
Posted by Jane Ames on September 11, 2005
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Filed Under Events, Northeast Portland, Public Safety, Southeast Portland (inner)
Sharrows: Moving Towards a Bicycle-Safe, Platinum Portland
Roland Chlapowski
Get Ready Portland! - Soon, you are going to see new markings on our roads - something called "sharrows." These innovative new pavement markings are part of a pilot program being rolled out by the City of Portland's Department of Transporation to study their effectiveness in our city...
Posted by Roland Chlapowski on August 26, 2005
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Filed Under Front Page, Livability & Environment, News, Office of Transportation, Our Initiatives, Public Safety, Transportation
Portland's National Night Out is a Success
Sam Adams
Neighborhoods are safer when neighbors know each other, exchange telephone numbers and communicate and notice when something doesn’t seem right.
It isn’t high tech, fancy, or needs a big budget; it’s just effective...
Posted by Sam Adams on August 2, 2005
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Filed Under Front Page, News, Public Safety, Southwest Portland
Public Safety Priorities
Jane AmesWe are moving forward on our multi-jurisdiction public safety partnership. In regular speak, that means political leaders within Portland and Multnomah County are working together on a project to identify our communities’ highest public safety priorities. Then we will allocate our combined public safety tax-dollars on the necessary services to...
Posted by Jane Ames on July 27, 2005
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PDOT Manager Bill Kloos Wins Award
Tom MillerPDOT staff receives award from transportation professional society July 2005 The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) has selected Bill Kloos, PDOT Signals St. Lighting Division Manager, to receive their 2005 Innovative Intermodal Solutions for Urban Transportation Best Paper award. The title of Bill’s paper is “Developing Intermodal Traffic Signal Solutions...
Posted by Tom Miller on July 6, 2005
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Project Clean Slate
Jesse BeasonThe flyer says it all, By cleaning up your criminal record, clearing up outstanding warrants and getting your license reinstated you will greatly increase your opportunities for employment, housing, self-empowerment and most importantly get you out of the criminal justice system. Project Clean Slate, held at July 9 at PCC...
Posted by Jesse Beason on July 1, 2005
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Filed Under Events, Jobs & Economy, North Portland, Public Safety
Southeast Public Safety Forum Drop-by
Jane AmesSam dropped by the SOUTHEAST PUBLIC SAFETY FORUM hosted by SE Precinct Commander Rosie Sizer and Crime Prevention Program Coordinator Galina Grigoryan on Monday, June 27th. The Commander, Emergency Response Team Officers and representatives from the various neighborhood and business associations were reviewing current crime statistics for the Southeast and...
Posted by Jane Ames on June 29, 2005
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Filed Under Our Initiatives, Public Safety, Southeast Portland (inner)
City Hall's New Bureau Assignments
Andrew TuttleMayor Potter released bureau assignments yesterday. Below are the assignments.
Posted by Andrew Tuttle on June 23, 2005
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It's Not Just Meth
Jane AmesSam spent Friday, June 17th at a Meth Congress presided over by Mayor Potter and County Chair Linn. From the first speaker to the closing remarks a few themes set the tone of the event. This is not only a Meth crisis, it is a drug crisis. Meth is one...
Posted by Jane Ames on June 21, 2005
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BLOG: Thanks, Tamara
The Office
We are standing across from each other sharing a big wood-block food preparation table in the middle of a well-used commercial kitchen. I am breaking 50 dozen eggs into a strainer in preparation for scrambled eggs...
Posted by The Office on June 20, 2005
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Juvenile Justice Works for the Future
Jane AmesTim Nacoste is a Custody Services Supervisor and Measure 11 Overseer, and Faye Fagel is Custody Services Manager at the Multnomah County Juvenile Justice Center. They gave Sam a tour of the Justice Center in Southeast Portland at the program's 100 year anniversary on June 10th. Sam was struck by...
Posted by Jane Ames on June 16, 2005
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Filed Under Events, Public Safety, Southeast Portland (inner)
The Use of Deadly Force Issue Needs the Light of Day
Jane AmesOne of Sam's campaign promises is to insure that investigations of “use of deadly force” cases become transparent. This will necessitate a change in Oregon State Law. When Grand Jury cases involve police use of deadly force that results in the death of an individual, the proceedings should be recorded...
Posted by Jane Ames on June 13, 2005
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Filed Under Good Government, Livability & Environment, News, Public Safety, Speeches & Testimony
What If We Could Fight Both Meth and Crack?
Jane AmesOregonian column by S. Renee Mitchell on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 Whenever Northeast Portland activist Richard Brown attends a meeting about neighborhood crime, he waits to hear the word: methamphetamine, which has wrestled our otherwise civil citizens -- some as young as age 12 and 13 -- into a kind...
Posted by Jane Ames on May 25, 2005
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Sam Adams on the Joint Terrorism Task Force Decision
Jane AmesAfter months of consideration, I have decided to support the City of Portland’s withdrawal from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). It was a challenging decision; I recognize that Portland’s citizens are divided on this issue. Some believe withdrawing from the JTTF leaves the city more...
Posted by Jane Ames on May 2, 2005
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Sam's Chief's Forum Representative
Jane AmesIn early April, Sam was pleased to appoint The Recovery Association Project Multnomah County Co-Chair Gary Cobb to The Portland Police Bureau’s Chief’s Forum (PDF). As a representative of the Recovery Association Project, Gary provides a useful perspective and thoughtful voice to the Chief’s forum community. A good deal of...
Posted by Jane Ames on April 11, 2005
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Joint Terrorism Task Force
The OfficeOn Wednesday, March 30 we heard from many of you about Portland's participation in JTTF. In my remarks last night, and in a letter to Special Agent In Charge Robert Jordan, I expressed that in our unique form of government supervision and control is the responsibility of the Commissioner-in-Charge. I...
Posted by The Office on March 31, 2005
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Open up grand jury proceedings in police shootings
The OfficeSam testified on Thursday, March 24 before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of a senate bill that would make transcripts of grand jury testimony public in police shootings. His testimony is below the fold. (See the article, watch it online) Thoughts?
Posted by The Office on March 24, 2005
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Portland May Pull Out Of FBI Task Force
Sam AdamsFrom The Oregonian, December 21, 2004 The incoming City Council, which is split on a terrorism accord, may be the first nationwide to back out of it. Portland could be the first city nationally to pull out of a FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force, with incoming members of next year's...
Posted by Sam Adams on December 21, 2004
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Filed Under Good Government, News, Public Safety
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