The Portland City Council voted down a controversial budget amendment Tuesday that would have taken $10 million from the new Office of Community Police Accountability to partly restore cuts to the fire and police bureaus in Mayor Keith Wilson’s proposed budget.
The amendment, championed by Councilor Olivia Clark, died by a 6–6 vote.
The new OCPA houses a 21-member board that will soon investigate allegations of police misconduct. The new board is set to replace the city’s existing police review board, and is the product of a 2020 ballot measure passed by 82% of Portland voters that mandated the city create a new police oversight system…