Oregon
Entries where the acting authority was Oregon (OR), whatever state or country the events took place in.
Jurisdiction is who acted, not where it happened. Federal conduct inside Oregon is filed under Federal, not here.
2026 Events (2)
Oregon Journalism Project revealed sworn staff statements alleging Oregon Youth Authority covered up physician abuse of youths
Thirteen former Oregon Youth Authority staff filed sworn statements in federal litigation alleging agency leaders knew for years that a MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility physician was sexually abusing incarcerated youths and failed to investigate, discipline, or remove him, Oregon Journalism Project (via Lookout Eugene-Springfield) reported August 19, 2026. Dr. Edward Gary Edwards, the facility's longtime chief medical officer, is accused of abusing youths in his care from approximately 2000 to 2017. One official who led the agency for part of that period, Fariborz Pakseresht, was appointed interim director of the Oregon Health Authority by Gov. Tina Kotek last month despite being a named defendant in the litigation.
Activist Malik Muhammad vanishes from Oregon custody records, transferred to South Carolina
Malik Muhammad — an Army veteran and activist serving the longest federal sentence of any 2020 Black Lives Matter protester — disappeared from Oregon's inmate-tracking system for weeks in spring 2026 before supporters learned they had been transferred roughly 3,000 miles to Kirkland Correctional Institution in South Carolina, a facility designated a "confidential location." In mid-May, South Carolina's prison system told The Intercept it had no record of anyone named Malik Muhammad in its custody, and Muhammad's Oregon-based attorney has been unable to communicate with them in a privileged manner since the transfer. Muhammad's attorney characterizes the interstate transfer as retaliation for helping other incarcerated people pursue a class-action suit over Oregon's use of solitary confinement; Oregon flatly denies the transfer was retaliatory.
2025 Events (1)
Oregon Rep. Greg Smith gave himself unapproved $66,000 raise and approved his own $51,000 in vacation pay, ethics panel found
Oregon's Government Ethics Commission unanimously found on December 12, 2025 that state Rep. Greg Smith, executive director of the Columbia Development Authority of Boardman, used a 2024 federal grant application to secure himself a $66,000 raise on his $129,000 salary without his board's approval, then signed his own timecards and approved his own paid time off -- including more than 54 vacation days between December 2024 and August 2025 -- worth more than $51,000 over three years. Smith signed a consent order on July 16, 2026 agreeing to pay a $12,000 civil penalty without admitting intentional wrongdoing, and has not repaid the roughly $33,000 in retroactive pay his board ordered returned after discovering the raise.