PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Six years after it yanked its police officers out of terrorism task force run by the federal government, the city of Portland is rejoining.
The City Council voted unanimously Thursday for a deal that civil libertarians and federal law enforcement officials agreed to.
Mayor Sam Adams says it requires city officers to obey Oregon’s strict provisions protecting civil liberties.
The FBI says there are 106 other task forces operating in the U.S.
Portland dropped out amid dismay at the mistaken arrest of a Beaverton lawyer in the 2004 Madrid train bombing.
But sentiment among council members changed last year when a Somali-born teenager was arrested in an FBI sting and accused of plotting to set off a bomb during the lighting of the city Christmas tree.
