Review the results of our survey of adults in custody to examine the areas of concern that adults in custody identified and implement changes to address those areas of concern. Revise procedures for planned use of force activities involving individuals with mental health conditions to require participation of mental health staff. Implement a use of force data collection system that will facilitate analysis of use of force incidents to identify patterns and training priorities.Ĭontract with professionals in training on cultural competency as well as identifying and managing race-related implicit bias.Įliminate the use of disciplinary sanctions that involve isolation.Įxpand training for deputies on how to work with adults in custody with mental health conditions.Įxpand the number of housing areas specifically for individuals with mental health conditions. Monitor deputies’ use of misconduct citations. We recommend that the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, no later than March 30, 2023:ĭevelop and implement a training program designed to reinforce the goal of informal solutions to discipline issues and to reduce the need for misconduct citations. We recommend that the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, no later than September 30, 2022:ĭelay full classification interviews for adults in custody moving into housing until 72 hours after booking.Įxpand supervisory review of classification decisions, with a focus on possible over-classification.Įliminate the use of isolation as a disciplinary sanction for individuals with mental health conditions. To implement some of our recommendations, the Sheriff’s Office and Board of County Commissioners, with its budget authority, may need to provide financial resources and support keeping jails below maximum capacity. Our focus was on describing conditions with a data-rich approach that could inform the ongoing community discussions about the legal system. We also want to provide information to community members about who is in our jails and the conditions they experience when incarcerated. County leadership committed to make improvements based on a 2017 Disability Rights Oregon report which found improper conditions for individuals with mental health conditions. We conducted this audit to provide an update on jail conditions. Jail conditions were worse for people with mental health conditions.Use of force procedures were consistent with standards, but deputies used force against Black adults in custody at a higher rate.Discipline procedures appeared consistent with standards, but misconduct citations were handed out disproportionately to Black adults in custody, and some deputies issued much higher rates of misconduct citations.Sheriff’s Office decisions on where individuals were housed were not as standardized and consistent as they could have been.Source: Multnomah County Sheriff's Office What We Found The inmate would also have a right to his medical records and notes written about him by deputies the entire time he was in custody.Multnomah County Justice Center. In such a case, the defendant would have a legal right to know not just which deputies were accusing him, but also to know which deputies were working during that shift at that facility at that time. For instance if an inmate were to get his arm broken, falsely accused of injuring deputies, and prosecuted in federal court. There are at times opportunities to get their full names, but those usually require legal proceedings. They typically walk around in uniforms that display just their last name and on most documents only their first initial, last name, and dpsst number are listed. These people really do not like it when people know their full names. They are mostly MCDC correctional officers, but also include medical staff and administrators. The rest are from various documents I have. Most of them are taken directly from the uploaded TeleStaff roster from swing shift at the Multnomah County Detention Center (MCDC) on June 28, 2017. This is just a partial Multnomah County Sheriff's Office staff roster containing over 160 full first and last names of MCSO deputies and other individuals that have worked for MCSO in recent years. Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming District of Columbia Puerto Rico Guam American Samoa U.S.
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