Measure 110 program manager resigns, says state was ‘maliciously negligent’
In August 2021, Oregon Health Authority hired Dr. Angela Carter to roll out the state’s voter-approved drug decriminalization law…. In a July 17 2023… resignation letter to the health authority’s interim director, David Baden, Dr. Angela Carter… outlined… the agency’s “maliciously negligent” oversight of the Measure 110 program: “it appears that OHA leadership has made a concerted effort to undermine the program in any way it can.”
…portrayed leadership as rejecting efforts to improve the program internally while working to hide important information from public view. “I witnessed OHA leaders denigrate oversight and accountability council members and community leaders in private meetings, willfully design the Measure 110 funding, data collection, and communications procedures for failure against the advice of all program staff and external advisory councils, hold meetings to discuss how best to obscure important and time sensitive information from the council and the public against the advice of DOJ, and attempt to manipulate the council to make decisions the OHA favored,” Carter wrote.
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Measure 110 program manager resigns, says state was ‘maliciously negligent’
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