The short, fast-paced 2024 legislative session ended with real wins for the Association of Oregon Counties (AOC) public safety portfolio. AOC’s Public Safety Steering Committee identified two priorities in advance of the session — [...]
After devastating cuts were made to the community corrections budget for the 2019-21 biennium, the House and Senate committees on Judiciary overviewed the budget development and implications to counties in a joint informational hearing during [...]
Substantial budget cuts are in sight for the Department of Corrections Budget (Senate Bill 5504) including community corrections and funding for county corrections programs. SB 5504 passed out of the joint ways and means subcommittee [...]