Join us and support our shared work for freedom, justice, and equality.
In spring of 2024 ACLU of Oregon filed a ballot title challenge to PDX24OL-03, an initiative petition filed by William Aitchison, the lawyer for the Portland Police Association (PPA). The challenge was filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court on behalf of Reverend Dr. LeRoy Haynes, Jr., the chair of the Albina Ministerial Alliance Coalition for Justice and Police Reform. The Portland police union is one of Oregon’s most powerful interest groups, which has continuously and aggressively attempted to undermine commonsense accountability measures for Portland police officers. The legal filing sucessfully asked the court to ensure that the ballot title for the police union’s petition will accurately inform voters that the petition would gut the independent oversight and disciplinary powers of the Community Board for Police Accountability established by 82% of Portland voters in 2020. As a result, the ballot measure proposal did not appear on the November 2024 ballot.
Learn more about the case here.
