The U.S. Department of Justice is prodding Portland to turn over more protest records — by leveraging the decade-old settlement agreement between federal officials and the Portland Police Bureau.
In a Wednesday letter, the DOJ’s civil rights division chief Harmeet Dhillon warned that the city was “failing to comply” with terms of the 2014 settlement regarding the department’s use of force against the mentally ill.
Specifically, the letter said Portland violated a provision requiring the Police Bureau to provide “full and direct access” to all records necessary to enforce the settlement…