Oregon makes emergency management a separate state agency
Streets throughout Salem were impassible after the February 2021 ice storm, just one of several disaster that’s affected the region in recent years. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)
Oregon’s Office of Emergency Management is now operating as a cabinet-level state department that reports directly to the Governor, rather than a branch of the Oregon Military Department.
The Salem-based agency has been renamed the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, effective July 1. The change is the result of…
