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Clackamas County delays vote to shift civil-commitment representation after public concerns
Summary
After a wave of public comment and questions about process and capacity, the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners agreed March 12 to remove a consent-agenda item that would shift civil-commitment representation and to consider it at its March 19 meeting to allow more community input.
Chair Roberts opened the March 12 meeting of the Clackamas County Board of Commissioners by announcing he would pull from the consent agenda a proposal affecting which office represents the county in involuntary civil-commitment proceedings and defer a vote until March 19 to allow more public testimony.
The proposal under discussion would designate the county’s district attorney’s office as responsible for civil-commitment representation; opponents argued that civil-commitment is a civil, not criminal, process. Amanda J. Marshall, who identified herself both as a person living with mental illness and as one of Clackamas County’s two public defenders for…
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