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DHS ignored facility’s lack of
license, criminal records of staff
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a public records request for the
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On June 1, 2009, Kelley-
Siel asked Goldberg in an email
whether she should personally
inform Holden and then-state
Sen. Margaret Carter, a board
member at Give Us This Day
and Portland Democrat, about
the lawsuit and public records
request.
Goldberg
responded,
“seems to me you should give
them a heads up.”
Goldberg was director
of DHS from 2005 through
February
2011,
when
then-Gov. John Kitzhaber
tapped Goldberg to lead the
Oregon Health Authority.
Goldberg resigned in 2014
following the state’s health
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and now works for Oregon
Health & Science University’s
Center for Health Systems
Effectiveness. Goldberg could
not be reached for comment
Wednesday afternoon.
Carter said although she
was a Give Us This Day
board member at the time, “in
terms of being an active board
member, where I actually knew
what was going on in terms of
day-to-day operations, not at
all.” She also did not recall
DHS employees calling her
about the lawsuit or records
request. “I don’t recall that
conversation about public
records,” Carter said.
Erinn Kelley-Siel wrote in a
February 2009 email. At the
time, Kelley-Siel was director
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2009 the Portland foster care Rehabilitation programs. She
program Give Us This Day was was promoted to the position
operating without a license and of director in 2011, when
was staffed entirely by people Goldberg left.
Kelley-Siel had other
with criminal records.
Still, the Oregon Depart- concerns about the program,
ment of Human Services which she listed in the email to
allowed Give Us This Day to Goldberg.
“At a site visit last week,
continue operating without
the necessary residential care numerous concerns arose
license. It was unclear from (on top of the fact they aren’t
state records how long the situ- licensed) — the most serious of
ation persisted, and DHS was which is that every single staff
unable to provide an answer person has a criminal record
and their program design does
Wednesday afternoon.
Emails released by the not address the issues that
Oregon Department of Human come with that,” Kelley-Siel
Services reveal top DHS wrote.
Goldberg did not appear to
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at the program much earlier have replied to Kelley-Siel’s
than previously reported. The email, based on the records
records also show Give Us This released by DHS.
At the time, Give Us
Day operated outside the state’s
licensing rules, and went over This Day had a state license
the heads of licensing staff to to operate as an academic
deal directly with the director boarding school. Mary Holden,
of the agency, Dr. Bruce Gold- executive director of the
berg. The agency released the program, told DHS licensing
emails in response to a public staff that she and the board of
records request from state Sen. Give Us This Day had already
gone to the top to negotiate the
Sara Gelser, D-Corvallis.
“Our staff have been issue, and was discussing it
working with them to try and with Goldberg. Holden refused
help them obtain a license even to apply for the correct
to provide residential care residential license and was still
(they already are providing operating without one in May
such care without a license),” 2009, when DHS employees
child welfare administrator learned that someone was suing
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli
Californians want 51 states
A rain-soaked lag of what activists call the state of Jefferson drapes an
umbrella at a rally calling for the creation of the 51st state at the Capitol on
Wednesday in Sacramento, Calif. Supporters said creating the new state,
along the California-Oregon border, would give them the government rep-
resentation they claim they are not getting.
Washington to limit carbon
pollution from largest facilities
Inslee failed last year to get legislation
passed on his ambitious cap-and-trade plan
that would have charged industrial facilities
SEATTLE — The state’s largest a fee for carbon emissions. In July, Inslee
industrial emitters would be required to directed Ecology to limit carbon pollution
reduce carbon emissions by 5 percent every using its existing authority under the state’s
three years, under a proposed rule released Clean Air Act.
Meanwhile, two competing efforts are
Wednesday by state regulators.
The Department of Ecology’s proposed trying to limit carbon pollution through
Clean Air Rule would initially apply to statewide initiatives.
In one effort, backers of Initiative 732
about two dozen manufacturing plants,
UH¿QHULHVSRZHUSODQWVQDWXUDOJDVGLVWULE- have turned over 350,000 signatures on
utors and others that release at least 100,000 a proposal to tax carbon pollution at $25
metric tons of carbon a year. Many more a metric ton while lowering other state
facilities would likely be covered by the WD[HV ,I YHUL¿HG , ZRXOG JR EHIRUH
rule as that threshold is lowered over time. the Legislature. If lawmakers don’t act, the
6WDWHRI¿FLDOVVD\WKHUXOHLVQHHGHGWR measure would go on the 2016 ballot.
A coalition of environmental, labor and
protect human health and the environment
social justice groups, the Alliance for Jobs
from climate change.
“It’s important that we act now to protect and Clean Energy, is also planning a state-
our water supplies, infrastructure and wide ballot initiative. That measure hasn’t
economy for future generations,” Ecology EHHQ¿QDOL]HGEXWLWFRXOGLPSRVHQHZIHHV
Director Maia Bellon said in a prepared on carbon pollution and direct the money
for clean-energy projects, low-income
statement.
Environmental and other groups communities and other projects.
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applauded the draft rule as a crucial step
in addressing climate change. But business capture about 60 percent of the state’s
groups and others have worried the efforts overall carbon emissions, but it would not
could hurt the state’s ability to attract and get the state all the way toward its mandate
to limit emissions of greenhouse gases to
retain industries.
The draft rule comes after Gov. Jay the 1990 level.
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press
BRIEFLY
possessing the weapons.
The regional SWAT team
then served a search warrant
at the man’s home and
allegedly found the guns and
ammunition.
disability for bureau director
and other top positions. It
will become binding city
policy.
The last seven bureau
SWEET HOME (AP) —
directors hired by the city are
Linn County authorities say a
middle-aged white men.
SWAT team has seized seven
The new standard is
Portland adopts
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modeled on the NFL’s
rounds of ammunition from
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new standard to
the home of a man legally
requires that at least one
prohibited from owning guns. increase diversity
minority candidate be
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PORTLAND (AP) — The interviewed for head coach
deputies arrested 73-year-old city of Portland has adopted a and general manager
Allen Maurice Diggs
new standard to help increase positions. The Rooney Rule
Tuesday on suspicion of
diversity among its top
was named after Pittsburgh
being a felon in possession of employee ranks.
Steelers owner Dan Rooney,
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who was chairman of the
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on Wednesday will require
league’s diversity committee.
Diggs was spotted in the
commissioners to interview
It was city parks ranger
Quartzville area with several
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that Portland adopt a version
he had been prohibited from
and candidate with a
of the Rooney Rule.
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from man’s home
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Tacoma
Moses
42/30
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 35/28
34/28
45/34
42/30
39/26
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
43/31
35/30 Lewiston
37/31
Astoria
41/34
49/35
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
43/31
Pendleton 36/23
The Dalles 38/30
34/28
39/31
La Grande
Salem
38/26
44/30
Albany
Corvallis 45/32
45/32
John Day
38/30
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
37/23
45/31
38/22
Caldwell
Burns
38/25
32/18
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Hi
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
32
68
62
48
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Medford
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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Periods of sun today with
a shower in the afternoon. Partly cloudy
tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today; a morning fl urry in the south. Low
clouds tonight.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today.
Partly cloudy tonight. Clouds and sun
tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Variable cloudiness
today.
Cascades: Clouds and sun today. Mostly
cloudy tonight, except mainly clear across
the north.
Northern California: Mainly cloudy today; a
shower or two; however, dry in the interior
mountains.
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National Summary: A storm will bring snow north and rain central and south over the mid-
dle of the nation today. Another storm will impact the Southwest with drenching coastal
and desert rain and heavy mountain snow.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 77° in Naples, Fla.
Low -12° in Berlin, N.H.
NATIONAL CITIES
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Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
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