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Your #woefully inept @EugenePolice the good old white boy system is live and well...
State civil rights law is not a smaller copy of DOJ pattern-or-practice. In Oregon it is mostly **discrimination and public-accommodation statutes**, plus a separate **police-discipline** stack. The Attorney General does not have a clean “sue Eugene PD for a pattern” button.
**Oregon’s main civil rights code: ORS chapter 659A**
Policy is in ORS 659A.006: it is a civil right to get work, housing, or public accommodation without discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, age, or disability (and related protected activity).
Enforcement is through the **Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI)** Civil Rights Division, then a possible lawsuit in circuit court. Typical covered harm:
- employment discrimination and retaliation
- public accommodation (stores, hotels, many services)
- housing (often overlapping with federal Fair Housing)
- whistleblower and workers’-comp retaliation
- disability accommodation
Process: questionnaire → signed complaint → investigation → substantial-evidence finding or dismissal → conciliation or formal charges. Time limits are generally long for post-2019 incidents (up to five years for many employment claims). BOLI is built for **an employer or a place of public accommodation**, not for “detectives will not take my Instagram case.”
**Police-specific Oregon rules (not 659A)**
After 2020–21 reforms, officer conduct has its own statutes:
- **ORS 181A.681** — officers must intervene and report misconduct (unjustified force, sexual misconduct, discrimination, or a crime) within 72 hours. Failure can cost certification.
- **DPSST** — Department of Public Safety Standards and Training can suspend or revoke an officer’s certificate.
- **LESC rules** (ORS 243.706, 243.808–243.812) — statewide discipline matrix for proven misconduct (untruthfulness, bias crimes, misuse of authority, etc.).
- **ORS 181A.250** — agencies may not collect or keep files on political, religious, or social views unless tied to a criminal investigation with reasonable suspicion. That is a surveillance limit, not a general “investigate my neighbor” duty.
Home rule matters: Oregon’s AG is a **statutory** office (ORS ch. 180). Legislative history around profiling bills noted the AG has no default power to run city police. That is why Oregon did not copy California’s AG pattern-or-practice statute.
**How that compares with other states**
About ten states gave their AG an express pattern-or-practice power modeled on 34 U.S.C. § 12601. California’s Police Practices Section is the developed version: civil investigation of a department’s systems, then a lawsuit or MOU. New Jersey can go further and *supersede* a department. New York has used *parens patriae* and other tools without the same clean statute. Oregon is in the group that reformed *officer* standards instead of handing the AG a federal-style decree power.
**Where a private person’s claims usually land in Oregon**
| Claim | State door | Federal door |
|---|---|---|
| Disability discrimination by a business or employer | BOLI / ORS 659A | ADA / EEOC |
| Housing | BOLI + fair housing | HUD / DOJ |
| One officer’s force or bias | IA, DPSST, possible tort / § 1983 | FBI civil rights if it is a federal crime |
| Department-wide unconstitutional pattern | Limited state path; city political process | DOJ § 12601 |
| Identity theft / cyber fraud | Local PD + Oregon DOJ consumer tools | IC3, FTC, Secret Service |
| “Police won’t take my report” | Complaint to the city / police auditor if the city has one | Not a pattern-or-practice case by itself |
Eugene is a home-rule city. Oversight of EPD is first the city manager, council, and whatever civilian review the city created — not Salem’s AG opening a consent decree.
**Bottom line for the thread you have been following**
State civil rights law helps if the harm is **discrimination in work, housing, or a public accommodation**, or if a **named officer** violated Oregon’s misconduct and certification rules. It does not, in Oregon, replace a police report, an IC3 file, or a federal pattern-or-practice investigation of the whole department. Tagging @EugenePolice and “call the feds” still sits outside BOLI’s 659A machine. THus, I needeth you to doeth your jobeth. #Hatecrimes
@ianbremmer Anyone reading your tweet without knowing the history of the war, Biden’s efforts, and Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine would be #woefully #mislead.
#DCdistrict #JudgeJamesBoasberg. What are we going to do with you brother? You don't want us to send #criminals out of the #country. And when we tell you they are #badass #mothers, you say that response is "#woefully #insufficient." What kinda #weed you been #smokin' #Jeb?
This new report just out but remember in 2019 identical stats were shared by government & ignored about teacher retention: https://t.co/Ffl810cKzW DfE has privatised ITE in lieu of teacher pay rises. Plan has #woefully failed. https://t.co/rJVPXVciOQ
@mirlanalmazbek @carlbildt One must be A) #woefully #ignorant, B) a #savage or C) #both, to defend the #genocidal Serbia that existed in the 1990's.
Are you A, B or C?
Matt Hancock was never a policy maker – he was a fanatic. I'm afraid his ego overtook his abilities #Woefully incompetent! https://t.co/fSBzdT5jjO
@PippaCrerar Not a detailed plan just quietly waiting by default to enter number 10! #woefully inadequate!
Glad @lesondugrisli is #reminding folks about the #woefully #underrecorded #trumpeter #composer #academic #BillDixon Here R reviews of more of #prickly BD's music: https://t.co/mYGoCKm8WI
#NYC #Vermont #freejazz #improvjazz #freemusic #TheOctoberRevolution #TheNewThing
@TheSmartGump @DineshDSouza DSouza just takes click bait&sound bites & runs with it.Does not bother to research,read or listen to context.
#Woefully ignorant
#No critical thinking skills
#Lazy
Yes,Trump loves the poorly educated,that's you DSouza.
Ps.Get the facts,stop making things up.We see through you.
@Telegraph So exploitation of the law allows illegal migrants to break our immigration law! #Woefully inept!
@NileGardiner @pickup8907 Absolutely milking the titles sold out to Netflix travelling by private jets and delivering speeches written by others #woefully inept!
@kurteichenwald @JackBuckman3 @JohnCornyn "Qualify" is too large of a vocabulary for him.And
Cornyn can't accept their are conditions in each stage.Inability to understand content or
decipher meaning of information presented. Retirement?
Shallow thinker/lazy mind.
#Woefully ignorant.
#Educate yourself
#Listen better!
@RubinlawPLLC @redheadb3 @laurenboebert How do these people
make it out their front
door ? And they carry
guns ?
#Woefully stupid
#Woefully irresponsible
@Andym6769 @GuidoFawkes He simply bashes his own govt not a smidge of criticism for the eu #woefully inept.
@crabillac @zombiesands @kathylslaughter @MysterySolvent His ignorance and narcissism not a good combo.
#Woefully ignorant
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