Author: Heather-Lynne Van Wilde

Reporter, Editor-in-Chief, owner of the 'pink walker'. Often found in court rooms and making cutting remarks on Twitter and Mastodon. Big fan of Open Source Computing, LGBTQ rights, BLM, Press freedom, and government transparency.

Official Statements From Family of Micheal Reinoehl

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As a family, we are asking that other media outlets do not reach out to us, Mike’s parents or his children at this time. At this time, until the investigations into the circumstances surrounding Mike’s death are completed, it’s not appropriate for us to make any additional statements about what has happened.

A background on the theory of press passes and the public space

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Over the last few month and a half (it feels like a year by this point), I’ve been approached by a number of people concerning the concept of citizen/independent journalists and press passes. A large part of it is undoubtedly the fact that I actually produce press passes for independent journalists (shameless plug here for more […]

First run of arrest data (not entirely accurate based on new data)

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Editor’s note: this article was originally based on this tweet thread from July 9th 2020. Since then, we have learned that the Portland Police’s press releases were riddled with errors, and with new research tools available, we are in the middle of recompiling the data using court records. This process is more time consuming, but […]

Third class action case against City of Portland for police brutality

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I’ve been incredibly busy as of late, and most of my focus has been on the Twitter and live stream side of things, including some research projects, but I wanted to take a moment to share some good news. Shortly after the Portland protests started, a class action case, Don’t Shoot PDX v City of […]

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