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State judge rules that SRCI must enforce mask mandate, consider rapid tests for employees

Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario. (Kezia Setyawan/The Enterprise) ONTARIO – A state judge last week ordered officials at Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario to devise a plan to enforce mask use at the prison and to deploy mass testing after finding that the state’s treatment of two inmates[Read More…]

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Cyber attack disrupts training for thousands of Oregon state employees

Oregon’s Department of Administrative Services building. (Rachel Alexander/Salem Reporter) Thousands of state employees across dozens of Oregon agencies are awaiting the reinstatement of Oregon’s online training system after a Christmas Day cyber attack forced the state Department of Administrative Services to pull down the website. An unknown hacker was caught[Read More…]

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State Hospital puts up ‘no vacancy’ sign for civil commitments

Oregon State Hospital Salem Reporter/file The Oregon State Hospital is suspending all civil admissions until Dec. 27 to prioritize patients ordered by courts to receive competency restoration treatment.  The halt on civil commitments was announced in a letter Monday, Dec. 16, to the hospital’s statewide partners. It is effective immediately. According[Read More…]

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