Your Tuesday evening update on Salem news
Good evening, Salem.
A month ago, our team revealed a high level state executive had pleaded guilty to assaulting an 8-year-old boy in a Salem after school program and apparently kept his state job.
Following our report, former Gov. Kate Brown fired Reginald Richardson, but her office stayed mum about when they learned of the assault and other details related to the case.
Now, we can bring you a fuller report after obtaining emails from the governor’s office and Oregon Health Authority. Those emails show state officials planned to let Richardson retire with months of state pay as he prepared to plead guilty and that he moved to Chicago as the case was pending apparently without the knowledge or approval of his supervisors.
Read our full report below.
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Emails show top state officials were content to let Reginald Richardson retire with months of state pay after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a child at a Salem after school…
10 Jan 2023
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Emails show top state officials were content to let Reginald Richardson retire with months of state pay after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a child at a Salem after school…
10 Jan 2023
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Commissioners on Wednesday will also consider two contracts, each projected to cost over $2 million, for repairing the wildfire-damaged street on Southeast North Fork Road and rebuilding part of Hollywood…
10 Jan 2023
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Commissioners on Wednesday will also consider two contracts, each projected to cost over $2 million, for repairing the wildfire-damaged street on Southeast North Fork Road and rebuilding part of Hollywood…
10 Jan 2023
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Lawmakers re-elected the House speaker, choose a new Senate president and welcomed in a crop of new legislators.
10 Jan 2023
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Lawmakers re-elected the House speaker, choose a new Senate president and welcomed in a crop of new legislators.
10 Jan 2023
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