The relegated Multnomah County staff submitted Civil lawsuit He argued that he had complained about the lack of safe conditions due to large -scale cases of high -risk customers with mental illness, insufficient employees and inappropriate funds against County and her former boss.
The 46 -year -old Katie Cleone Cecil argues that managers have encouraged the judge to mislead the judge against some of the crime accused who could not help her defend.
Employees said that the defendant’s mental health evaluation was in progress, saying, “Even when the work is not over.” Cicil said in a federal lawsuit.
CECIL said to Judge Multnomah County, “refused to lie.”
The judge decides to place a place to be charged with crime using the county assessment but to be inadequate for being trial. The state is faced with a long federal lawsuit against the lack of psychiatric treatment for the so -called aid and assistive defendants.
Cecil’s argument emphasizes the results at the county level in the mental health treatment system of Oregon.
Cecil has complained to the county personnel manager from the excellent government hotline of the county auditor and the OSHA and the Oregon Labor Industry and the County.
Her supervisor criticized her as “whiner.” According to the lawsuit, she screamed, reduced her job responsibilities, changed her schedule, and ultimately demoted her. The county human resource manager also also “disciplined her” for raising OSHA dissatisfaction, the lawsuit said.
In April, the Labor Industry Bureau found practical evidence that County is in another work condition based on her concerns about her concern.
Cecil’s lawsuit, which was submitted to the US District Court in Portland on June 4, nominated County and two supervisors, Kathy Shumate and Jen Gulzow. The county program manager, SHUMATE, left a job in the spring of 2024 and is a manager of inpatient care and social business at Unity Behavioral Health Center. Gulzow, the deputy director of the Ministry of Health and Health, left County in April and is currently working for the Oregon health authorities as a quality management analyst of the Medicaid Department.
The lawsuit claimed that the County was demoted by the behavioral health department on June 29, 2023.
She returned to work in early August 2023 and moved from the behavioral health department to county clinical service.
Cecil’s case is about Multnomah County’s practice related to adults with mental illness, “when he retreats back”, “Her lawyer Matthew C. Ellis said.
County officials rejected the lawsuit and mentioned a lawsuit in progress.
In response to the complaints of CECIL’s main labor state, County admitted that Shumate “retaliated” for her complaints about working conditions, but apologized for hostile communication.
County officials denied that Cecil was instructed to lie in court, and he lost her lead position because the supervisor was hired for instead.
In 2002, Judge Owen M. Panner ruled that Oregon State Hospital should recognize the defendant to the court that the court could not participate in defense due to mental illness within seven days. Many of them were waiting in prison without treatment.
Judge Michael W. Mosman later ruled his ruling in 2022 and 2023 to help meet the 7 -day rules.
In the case of the defendant according to the aid and support orders accused of a heavy offense, MOSMAN set up maximum time in the main psychiatric hospital for mental health restoration for six months for 11 non -measurements, and one year for one year for more serious measurement for one year, and the most violent mid -criminal sin based on the petition of the Earth.
When the defendant reached its maximum stay at State Hospital, their incident returned to the court and sent it. The court then begins a civil promise if the defendant will be placed in additional treatment to local facilities, or if the accused causes danger to him or others or dismissed the prosecution.
According to CECIL’s lawsuit, Mosman’s ruling urged State Hospital to release many accused, including people with extreme mental health problems.
For example, in 2021, before the order of Mosman, CECIL and her team had about 168 community counseling on the population, and according to the lawsuit, “overwhelming and lack of funds.” Cecil said it has grown with 504 similar community consultations by 2023.
In the fall of 2022, the county received a $ 1.7 million subsidy from the state and expanded the program at a state hospital and bypassed more accused for county -based treatment.
Cecil’s lawsuit encouraged the state to use the money to expand the existing team, but Multnomah County created a new group called Bridge Team, which has never started using money.
“As the bridge team became under, the Mosman Order and other laws and other laws changed the work of the plaintiff’s conversion team seriously and mentally sore (Oregon State Hospital) and made the team of Cecil much more dangerous.
Despite the dissatisfaction with the management of dangerous working conditions, CECIL and her team were instructed to “keep see more customers.”
“The department court was in a huge hole and was instructed to dig into it,” the lawsuit says.
As CECIL said that money is wrong, the number of individuals who are not handled on the street has increased, and the existing county staff has burned and left the program.
Cecil complained that County did not have a standardized tool for evaluating the defendant’s risks in the state labor bureau, and the County’s program had increased resources and obtained resources.
She said, “It feels like it’s turning to wild west.
-Maxin Bernstein covers federal courts and criminal justice. 503-221-8212, contact her with mbernstein@oregonian.com and follow her in X @maxoregonianBluesky @maxbernstein.bsky.social Or on LinkedIn.
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