News After waiting more than three months to hear back from Mayor Sam Adams about Adams' own plan to have Portland take over river-patrol duties, Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton on Tuesday sent Adams a stinging letter calling the matter "closed.""Unfortunately, even after numerous attempts by my staff to contact your office over the last three months, we have been unable to further the inquiry or come ...   More

News In his State of the City speech last month, Portland Mayor Sam Adams took Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton by surprise when Adams proposed that the city take over the sheriff's duty of providing law enforcement on local waterways.Adams said that by absorbing river-patrol costs (currently $1.8 million, according to city estimates), the city would let the county invest that money in cash-starved mental-health ...   More

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News It felt like a coronation when Multnomah County commissioners this morning unanimously voted to appoint county Sheriff's Lt. Dan Staton as the interim sheriff. But there was an interesting political back story behind that unanimous vote, a decision that touched off an eruption of applause from several dozen sheriff's office staffers in the room. Afterward, Staton (pictured above) stood by the door ...   More

News Continuing a trend that started with his predecessor, interim Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton is refusing to reveal the names of people his office has licensed to carry a concealed handgun. The county attorney's office told WW this morning that Staton "has determined that the list of names requested is exempt from public disclosure" under the state's open-records law. Prior Multnomah ...   More

News After former Sheriff Bob Skipper promised but ultimately declined to make high-level changes at the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, his new replacement has announced some big moves. Interim Sheriff Dan Staton, who replaced Skipper early this month, is removing Chief Deputy Ron Bishop as head of the sheriff's historically troubled Corrections Division. Staton announced the move in an internal ...   More

News In what's become the equivalent of a yearly spanking for the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office, a special grand jury today rolled out its annual report (PDF) on the local jail system. Like previous reports, this year's assessment blasted the county-run jail system as hugely wasteful and inefficient. But unlike past years, where the grand jury was heavily critical of particular leaders (including ...   More

News As first reported this morning at Blue Oregon, Bruce McCain has withdrawn from the Multnomah County Sheriff's race. Below is part of McCain's explanation — taken from his comment to Blue Oregon's post, in which McCain certainly seems to believe interim Sheriff Dan Staton is now in the driver's seat to win a full term in the job. Congrats on your nightowl scoop. Yes, I have decided to ...   More

News Interim Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton, who's already picked up a significant union endorsement from the corrections deputies in his election run, has almost completed the puzzle of putting together all the organized labor support that matters in the race. Staton's campaign announced today he's been endorsed by AFSCME Local 88, which represents about 2,800 county employees including the ...   More

News A glance through the donor list for Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton's election campaign prompted us this week to revisit a story WW broke last year. Staton's finance reports show he received a $250 donation Feb. 6 from Tim Moore, chief deputy for law enforcement at the sheriff's office. Moore made the news last year when we wrote about an alleged cover-up under former Sheriff Bob Skipper ...   More