How Counting Attendees and No-Shows at a Historic Launch in Marin City Uncovered Jeremy Portje's Unreported Settlement with City of Sausalito
Jeremy Portje's $21 million lawsuit against the City of Sausalito quietly settled last summer. Why didn't local media report the terms?
(Photo above shows Congressman Jared Huffman at the November 7, 2024 launch of the historic Army Corps of Engineers flood control project won by community powerhouse Terrie Green, of Marin City Climate Resilience.)
This is the shortest article I've ever published, and I'm inserting it mostly as a bookmark for what's coming later this week.
Reviewing both the attendees and “no-shows” at the historic November 7, 2024 launch of the Army Corps of Engineers project in Marin City led to further insight into Marin County’s AB 1185 “Sheriff Civilian Oversight Working Group” (SCOWG).
In later discussions about the no-shows, I learned that SCOWG principal Jeremy Portje's $21 million civil rights lawsuit against the City of Sausalito had been very quietly settled last summer. There has been apparently zero reporting on the settlement in local media, which had produced multiple articles about the initial 2021 incident and the subsequent lawsuit filed in 2022.
Why so much publicity about the incident and about the lawsuit, but no followup on the settlement — particularly when two conditions of the settlement are relevant to the larger community? And why no followup on the settlement given Portje's ongoing role in pushing through a weak civilian oversight package at the County level?
Late last week I requested comment from Portje's attorneys about the settlement and the initial case. Attorney Charles Dresow has agreed to respond sometime today, and I am waiting to hear word from him before I finish writing the article.
As always, thank you to patient readers. There is much more to report before the holiday break including what transpired at the November 4 Margoliash sentencing; video and details from the Army Corps of Engineers’ launch in Marin City; more secrecy from the Marin County Office of Education; and a breakdown of shoddy reporting from ABC-7 News about civil rights cases in the Bay Area impacting teachers.
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