Marc Poris

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He/him. Working for police transparency and accountability in PDX. PCC Paralegal student. Member of Portland Copwatch. Opinions on here are my own.

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Marc Poris@marcporis· 29d

And a 4th amendment has arrived: Koyama Lane-Kanal 1 Looks like it may be designed to bring over things funded by the Morillo et al ordinance into the Pirtle-Guiney one? www.portland.gov/sites/defaul...

Exhibits and attachments

Proposed amendment - Koyama Lane-Kanal 1 - 70.58 KB
Proposed amendment - Dunphy-Kanal 1 - 591.22 KB
Proposed amendment - Kanal 2 - 557.56 KB
Proposed amendment - Kanal 3 - 557.86 KB
Exhibit A 69.95 KB
Exhibit B 74.67 KB

Marc Poris@marcporis· 29d

Current budget allocations.

Lines 56 thru 66 are displayed with some color coding.

There's a new section 12 in purple and underlined that says "Exhibit C, attached, shows General Fund allocations in the FY 2026-27 Adopted Budget by bureau.

Marc Poris@marcporis· 29d

See the number next to Office of the Public Safety DCA: $30,527,031 PPB gets 9x that from the General Fund. What's in the Office of the Public Safety DCA? Filter the Positions Report on the FY 2026-27 Adopted Budget Dashboard by Office of the Public Safety DCA. public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Tableau dashboard showing Office of the Public Safety DCA selected with a bar graph beneath showing program offers of:

Portland Street Response
CAO Public Safety
Enterprise Services
Office of Violence Prevention (OVP)
Ceasefire
Special Appropriations COCL/PCCEP

The horizontal axis is labeled Total Full-time and Limited Term Positions

Marc Poris@marcporis· 29d

Here's Exhibit C from Amendment Dunphy-Kanal 1 which shows General Fund allocations in the FY 2026-27 Adopted Budget, by bureau.

List with Bureau on the left and Total Approximate GFD on the right.

Portland Police Bureau is at the top at $268,340,570 and Office of Public Works is at the bottom at $262,631.

Totals: $803,048,912

Marc Poris@marcporis· 29d

Should be interesting to hear if/how the sponsors of the Pirtle-Guiney ordinance attempt to keep the Office of Community-based Police Accountability (OCPA) listed as a potential funding source. Here are the notes at the top of each amendment.

Amendment - Dunphy-Kanal 1 (July 14, 2026)

Dunphy-Kanal Amendment #1: Guide the CBO to backfill the General Fund Contingency and Business License Tax Reserve Fund from Underspending by General Fund Bureaus in the Spring TAO as well as PCEF interest.

This amendment removes initial consideration of the OCPA and PCEF funds to backfill the General Fund Contingency Fund and the Business License Tax Reserve Fund in the Spring TAO and instead directs CBO to present options across the General Fund Bureau underspending and PCEF Interest without prioritizing specific funds within the bureaus.
It should be up to their professional assessment which funds are presented as backfill options in the Spring TAO rather than prioritizing one or two.

Amendment - Kanal 2 (July 14, 2026)

Amendment – Kanal 2

This amendment preserves everything funded by this ordinance but changes the funding source. The ordinance as originally drafted uses General Fund contingency and proposes repaying the contingency fund through the Spring TAO with intended OCPA underspending, as well as Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF) interest. This amendment removes the references to specific bureau underspending and proposes using underspending more broadly as well as PCEF interest to replenish the General Fund Contingency through the Spring TAO. The changes are made in lines 59-6056-63 and 77-79.

Amendment - Kanal 3 (July 14, 2026)

Amendment – Kanal 3

This amendment preserves everything funded by this ordinance but changes the funding source. The ordinance as originally drafted uses General Fund contingency and proposes repaying the contingency fund through the Spring TAO with intended OCPA underspending, as well as Portland Clean Energy Fund (PCEF) interest. This amendment removes the references to underspending in the Spring TAO, retaining PCEF interest as the source of funds to replenish the General Fund Contingency. The changes are made in lines 56-63 and 78-81.

Marc Poris@marcporis· 29d

There are now 3 proposed amendments for the Pirtle-Guiney et al item. Hopefully someone will be able to summarize these amendments. www.portland.gov/council/docu...

Exhibits and attachments

Proposed amendment - Dunphy-Kanal 1 - 591.22 KB
Proposed amendment - Kanal 2 - 557.56 KB
Proposed amendment - Kanal 3 - 557.86 KB
Exhibit A69.95 KB
Exhibit B74.67 KB

Marc Poris@marcporis· 29d

Among the recommendations that have not been implemented by MCSO include: * Eliminating the use of isolation as a disciplinary sanction for those with mental health conditions * Eliminating the use of disciplinary sanctions that involve isolation

Weisberg also said the auditor’s office declined to meet prior to releasing its report.

“This has unfortunately resulted in statements that mischaracterize the rigorous and professional work of our dedicated corrections deputies,” he said. “While we will review the Auditor’s report and implement recommendations that we agree align with the Sheriff’s strategic direction and best correctional practices, a decision to not adopt a specific recommendation does not diminish our commitment to providing exemplary public safety services.”

According to the report, the Sheriff’s Office has implemented five of the original recommendations. They include expanding supervisor review of classification decisions; developing a training program to reinforce informal solutions to discipline issues and reduce the need for misconduct citations; implementing a use of force data collection system; contracting with professionals to provide training on cultural competency and race-related implicit bias; and expanding training for deputies on how to work with adults with mental health conditions.

The Sheriff’s Office is also in the process of implementing a recommendation to monitor deputies’ use of misconduct citations.

The recommendations that have not been implemented include:

* Delaying full classification interviews for adults in custody moving into housing until 72 hours after booking

* Eliminating the use of isolation as a disciplinary sanction for those with mental health conditions

* Eliminating the use of disciplinary sanctions that involve isolation

* Reviewing results of a survey of adults in custody to identify and address areas of concern.

Marc Poris@marcporis· 29d

I suspect that the people who have been, and continue to be, held in solitary confinement in Multnomah County jails would use a stronger word than "concerning" here. Also pissed that we pay Brent Weisberg to provide meaningless quotes while MCSO ignores recommendations. bsky.app/profile/koin...

When reached for comment Tuesday, Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office Director of Communications Brent Weisberg issued a statement that said in part:

“A fundamental value of the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office is to hold ourselves and each other accountable. We also strive for continuous improvement, approaching every interaction as an opportunity to build trust and expect all members to serve everyone with dignity and respect. This commitment forms the foundation of our corrections operations, where properly functioning classification and disciplinary systems are vital to providing effective management within a secure environment. By grounding our operations in standardized best practices, we are helping to ensure the effective operation of our correctional facilities while upholding the legal rights, safety, and equitable treatment of all adults in custody.”

Marc Poris@marcporis· 29d

Chief Day recently stated that we are starting this fiscal year with 20 more sworn officers than last year. So, 809 now according to the Staffing Report, and last year around this time it was 789. Wayback Machine helps us validate that here. web.archive.org/web/20250716...

PPB Sworn Staffing Report

Report Date: 07/15/2025

Overall Staffing

* Total Sworn Members (All Ranks): 789
* Total Officers: 543
* Other Ranks: 245

Marc Poris@marcporis· 29d

Here are PPB's sworn officers, pulled from the Dashboard. The 875 number of FTE mostly corresponds to the 877 "authorized" on the Police Staffing Report, which is here. www.portland.gov/police/open-...

Spreadsheet with 3 columns and 10 rows of data followed by a blank row and totals underneath the FTE and Total columns.

Data is as follows, with cells separated by " | "

Job Class | FTE | Total
Police Officer | 597 | $112,673,373
Police Sergeant | 123 | $26,847,630
Police Detective | 88 | $1,886,1270
Police Lieutenant | 29 | $6,935,774
Police Criminalist | 18 | $3,795,351
Police Captain | 9 | $2,349,019
Police Commander | 6 | $1,652,039
Police Assistant Chief | 3 | $845,367
Police Chief | 1 | $436,915
Police Deputy Chief | 1 | $301,600

Marc Poris@marcporis· 29d

Sure would be nice if City Council could reconcile these two ordinances without touching the Office of Community-based Police Accountability (OCPA) budget. Exhibit B side by side. Left is from 2026-222 (Morillo et al) and right is from 2026-223 (Pirtle-Guiney et al). bsky.app/profile/jwjp...

Document on the left is Exhibit B from Ordinance 2026-222.

Document on the right is Exhibit B from Ordinance 2026-223.

Marc Poris@marcporis· 29d

For instance - it would be interesting for a reporter to learn more about why Councilor Novick was given the wrong impression by "some people in BOEC and in the Police Bureau" about the nature of most welfare check calls. Turns out, PSR can handle many of them. www.youtube.com/live/EA6zqlL...

“I wanted to say that I am grateful and fascinated and encouraged by this report. I'm grateful because this is exactly what we were talking about doing last year. I'm fascinated because the results are different from what I expected. Last year, having anecdotal conversations with some people in BOEC and in the Police Bureau, I was under the impression that most welfare checks was like somebody lying on the sidewalk somewhere, and that very few of them were private residence calls.

It turns out that that was simply not true.

And I'm encouraged by the fact that even though the numbers aren't what we what we expected, you still think that there is substantial capacity for these calls to be shifted to unarmed responders.”

- Councilor Novick

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jul 10

Where are they now? The three PPB officers that killed Damon Lamarr Johnson returned from LOA on January 1, 2026. One of them resigned on May 13, 2026. bsky.app/profile/marc...

Jason Epton's Employment history from the DPSST's CJ-IRIS system showing that he went on LOA from the Portland Police Bureau on 6/28/2025 and returned from LOA on 1/1/2026.

Juan Duque-Valencia's Employment history from the DPSST's CJ-IRIS system showing that he went on LOA from the Portland Police Bureau on 6/28/2025, returned from LOA on 1/1/2026, and resigned on 5/13/2026.

Travis Wortman's Employment history from the DPSST's CJ-IRIS system showing that he went on LOA from the Portland Police Bureau on 6/28/2025 and returned from LOA on 1/1/2026.

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jul 10

There's a lot in this thread and I'm just dropping this here now, because I remember thinking that the "goal of 84 recruits for this year" probably was referencing the fiscal year, which ended shortly after the most recent PPB Hiring Ceremony, which was on June 18, 2026.

Instagram post. Smiling white lady wearing a bright chartreuse top with a lanyard and purse standing next to a taller red haired white man wearing a police uniform.

There is text in the sidebar, some of which reads:

"This week I joined Chief Day at the latest hiring ceremony for the Portland Police Bureau, which has met its goal of 84 recruits for this year!

As you may have seen reported by OPB and The Oregonian, City Council voted to adopt an $8.5 billion budget that is far from perfect — but I remain undaunted in working to restore cuts to public safety services. Stay tuned for an ordinance to restore those cuts that will be brought to Council outside of the standard budget process."

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jul 3

It's FPDR Friday! The Portland Police Association (PPA) has 3 more days to get signatures for their ballot measure that WILL RAISE TAXES ... because of FPDR. The measure itself is horrible for many reasons, not least of which is that it takes climate $ to pay for armed officers AND it raises taxes.

Safer Portland home page with a yellow button and text that says Sign the Petition. A red X has been drawn over the button.

White text on green background says:

The Portland Enhanced Community Safety Initiative
A November 2026 Ballot Measure To Make Portland Safer Without Raising Taxes.

A red box has been drawn around "Without Raising Taxes" and there is a diagonal red line between that and the word FALSE in bold red letters.

Beneath that, there is text that says:

THE PROBLEM: Portland Has Too Few Police Officers For A City Our Size.

There is a red diagonal line from there that points to the word DEBUNKED in bold red text.

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jul 2

The Community Board for Police Accountability (CBPA) will hold a one hour Executive Session prior to their next public meeting "to consider information . . . exempt by law from public inspection and to consult with counsel . . . with regard to current litigation or litigation likely to be filed."

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jul 2

According to the DPSST's CJ IRIS system, Matson first went on LOA on 9/15/2025, which is hard to comprehend since the article states that Oregon State Police (OSP) began investigating him in 2024 and referred 67 criminal charges against him in February 2025. www.bpl-orsnapshot.net/PublicInquir...

Christopher Matson's Employment page in CJ IRIS has a table with 3 rows that show he was hired as a Corrections Officer by DOC/Two Rivers Correctional Institution on 5/1/2019, went on LOA on 9/15/2025, and was discharged on 1/21/2026.

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jul 2

According to the DPSST's Sanctions database, as of today, July 2, 2026, Matson still has his law enforcement certification. DPSST's Searchable Professional Standards Case Reviews and Economic Sanctions Database is here. www.oregon.gov/dpsst/cj/pag...

DPSST's searchable Professional Standards Case Reviews and Economic Sanctions Database showing "matson" in the search box and one result with:

Officer Name: Matson, Chris
DPSST No.: 60104
Certification(s): Corrections
Reason for Reporting: Arrest/Criminal Disposition
Status: Under Review
Employer: DOC/Two Rivers Correctional Institution
Date Opened: 10/2/2025

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jul 1

Have you made it to page 31 yet? Sworn officers spend an average of 5 hours and 27 minutes per "unattended death" call - that's like when someone dies in a nursing facility. There is zero need for a cop with a gun on these calls. 7,900 hours per year of this.

Unattended deaths: PPB responded to 1,453 unattended death calls in the 2023–24 fiscal year, spending an average of 5 hours and 27 minutes per call, a total of approximately 7,900 hours of officer time annually, not including any subsequent reporting or follow-up. The Call Allocation Working Group found that the vast majority of these deaths are medical in nature rather than criminal, and recommended that the Medical Examiner’s Office serve as the primary responding agency. Under this model, police would respond only when a criminal element is present or suspected, the scene is unsafe, the medical examiner requests support, or there is no person authorized under state law (ORS 146.10(6)) to take charge of the scene. Implementing this change would return a substantial block of officer hours to other duties.

False alarms: In 2024, PPB spent approximately 6,680 hours responding to alarm calls from community members and private alarm companies. Ninety-four percent of these calls were false alarms, meaning roughly 6,280 hours of officer time were consumed by responses that required no police action. The Call Allocation Working Group recommended several changes: that PPB not respond to alarms from non-permitted systems, that PPB cease responding after a third false alarm from the same location within a year, that the bureau exercise its existing authority to fine repeat false-alarm offenders, and that officer discretion to waive these fines be eliminated. The group also recommended hiring a dedicated alarm coordinator to manage permit-holder education, ensure BOEC tracks alarm locations not eligible for response, and administer the fine process. The goal of these changes is to reduce false alarm responses to a negligible number, recovering a significant portion of the hours currently lost to them.

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jul 1

Right. From page 30. It's notable that the hour per day of wellness time "has not been formally bargained with the applicable labor unions, and any modifications to the wellness program would likely need to be negotiated." Also notable that PPB officers work 4 ten hour days.

Wellness time
One notable change affecting the allocation of officer time has been the introduction of wellness time. The bureau currently grants sworn members four hours of wellness time per week, a practice intended to support employee retention and wellbeing, and one that has been well received by staff. However, this represents approximately a 10% reduction in the hours each officer spends on direct work activities (although the benefit can be suspended in response to extraordinary demand). This practice has not been formally bargained with the applicable labor unions, and any modifications to the wellness program would likely need to be negotiated. For the purposes of this report, current wellness time allocations are assumed to continue; however, any staffing model should account for this reduction when calculating effective available hours per officer.

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jul 1

The Portland Police Association (PPA) must have a good reason for wanting to alter the City's charter to require "no fewer than 2.0 sworn police personnel per 1,000 City residents," right? Wrong. Who says it's wrong? The City of Portland's Deputy City Administrator for Public Safety.

Section 11-404 The Enhanced Community Safety Services Fund Commission

(a) There is established a Enhanced Community Safety Services Fund Commission made up of five members: (1) the Mayor; (2) the Chief of Police; (3) the City Administrator; (4) a person appointed by the labor organization representing the majority of the City's sworn police personnel; and (5) a member of the Council appointed by the Council.

(b) By June 30, 2027, the Commission will adopt a Community Safety Action Plan establishing how the City will recruit, hire, maintain, and support no fewer than 2.0 sworn police personnel per 1,000 City residents by 2030 and beyond. The Commission may update the plan as necessary to meet the City policy to fund the Portland Police Bureau at a level that provides no fewer than 2.0 sworn police personnel per 1,000 City residents.

(c) The Commission will adopt a methodology to measure, track, and report to the public and City Council the City's progress toward meeting the requirements of the Community Safety Action Plan and the City policy to fund the Portland Police Bureau at a level that provides no fewer than 2.0 sworn police personnel per 1,000 City residents. Additionally, within ninety days after the Council adopts a budget for the Portland Police Bureau, the Commission will determine and report to the public whether the City has complied with Section 11-403(d).

NOTE: There's a red line under each of the phrases "no fewer than 2.0 sworn police personnel."

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jul 1

As of Monday, June 29, 2026, the Washington, DC company called Fieldworks has received $1,366,137.54 to gather signatures for the Portland Police Association (PPA) and its supporters for their ballot measure that would use climate $ to pay for 400 new armed Portland Police Bureau (PPB) officers.

Transaction Detail showing transaction date of 06/30/2026 with an expenditure of $185,097.55 for a purpose of "Management Services; Petition Circulators" paid by Community Safety Coalition PAC to Fieldworks, LLC.

Also displayed is an aggregate amount of $1,366,137.54.

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jun 26

The Portland Police Association (PPA) now is in for $768,532.89 with their most recent contribution coming on June 24, 2026.

Transaction Detail from ORESTAR showing transaction ID 5700939 which is a Cash Contribution of $250,000 from Portland Police Association on 6/24/2026.

Aggregate amount is $768,532.89.

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jun 26

Fieldworks crossed the million dollar mark today to gather signatures for the Portland Police Association's ballot measure to use climate resilience/justice funds to pay for more armed officers. $1,181,039.99 to be precise.

Transaction Detail showing transaction date of 06/26/2026 with an expenditure of $228,595.56 for a purpose of "Management Services; Petition Circulators" paid by Community Safety Coalition PAC to Fieldworks, LLC.

Also displayed is an aggregate amount of $1,181,039.99.

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jun 26

This is from last year's report that covered 2024, when 46% of the Focused Intervention Team's stops were of Black / African American people. Find all of PPB's Stops Data Collection Reports here. www.portland.gov/police/open-...

Table 49 and surrounding text on page 59 of the 2024 Stops Data Collection report showing that, in 2024, the Focused Intervention team made 204 stops of Black / African American people, which was 46% of their stops.

Text around the table reads:

FIT Stopped Subject Demographics

FIT officers performed stops on a significantly different group of subjects than other divisions stopping significantly more Black / African American subjects than other Traffic and Non-Traffic units and significantly fewer Asian and White subjects. The specialized mission of the Focused Intervention Team makes it challenging to select an appropriate benchmark. There is no research-supported benchmark for specifically analyzing the activities of one unit within a larger organization, so one is not included in this analysis.

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jun 25

There is a 15 minute public meeting of the Community Board for Police Accountability (CBPA) this evening, June 25, 2026, at 8 pm. It follows a 2 hour Executive Session, and there appears to be no public comment showing on the short agenda. www.portland.gov/ocpa/events/...

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jun 23

Also - the Police Staffing Numbers page was updated today, June 23, 2026. They continue to include information about sworn members per 1,000 residents and link to FBI data from 2019, which was before Portland Street Response (PSR) and the Ceasefire Program existed. www.portland.gov/police/open-...

Portland vs National Average

Portland currently has about 1.26 sworn members per 1,000 residents-
with 809 sworn members serving a population of around 640,623.

In contrast, the national average is around 2.4 sworn members per 1,000 residents. This means that if Portland were to meet that average, it would need approximately 1,538 sworn members - a significant increase of 729 sworn members over the current staffing level.

This discrepancy highlights the staffing challenges Portland faces relative to peer cities, where higher officer-to-resident ratios are common.

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Marc Poris@marcporis· Jun 23

Interestingly, former Deputy Chief Gjovik is not listed as a retiree or as having been demoted. Must be in the retire-rehire program.

Christopher Gjovik's Employment record from the DPSST's CJ IRIS system showing that his most recent action as Promotion to Deputy Chief on 1/2/2025.

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jun 23

Probably seeing all the May 2026 PPB retirements in CJ IRIS now - there are 32 of them, not including any officers who entered the retire-rehire program. pdx-police-accountability.github.io/dpsst-data/c...

PPB Roster filtered on retired users with date of last action that begins with 2026-05, sorted by name. 32 officers appear in the list with retirement dates ranging from May 1, 2026 thru May 30, 2026.

NOTE: The 32 officers are spread across the two images in this post.

Image 1 of 2.

Marc Poris@marcporis· Jun 23

Thank you for getting this on the record. Hopefully, in the future, budget staff will provide the taxing rate for the FPDR levy alongside the other taxing rates to allow the public to see the scale of this pension and disability system that benefits employees of two bureaus - police and fire.