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A friend sent me a link to your web site. I know first hand the abuses of the Clatsop County Oregon juvenile system. There are countless cases of abuse and illegal activities. They routinely resort to unethical and illegal activities to remove children from their homes. You should look into the case of Quinton Doe. He was a young black man they basically tried and eventually did railroad out of the county. I know you focus on the SCF side, but look into the OYA side and you'll find the abuses flourish. The Clatsop County juvenile dept. uses the OYA to remove older children from their homes. They routinely use trumped up or exaggerated criminal charges to remove teenagers. they was one case where they convicted a young lady of minor in possession of alcohol. She had been out one night and ran into some friends who had been drinking. She told her friends that they shouldn't drive and offered to drive them home. While in the process of doing so she was stopped by an Astoria police officer. He noticed her passengers were intoxicated and cited them for being a minor in possession by consumption. It's a fairly common charge where a minor drinks and by law they are considered to be in possession because the alcohol is in their system. When the paper work reached the county juvenile department it was assigned, as all cases were at that time, to the desk of Greg Englebritsen (sp?.) Mr. Englebritsen was familiar with the young woman who had been driving the vehicle. He didn't like her family or her. He took it upon himself to charge her with being in possession of alcohol as well. Using the logic that a driver of a vehicle is legally considered to be in possession of all the contents of the vehicle and since her passengers had alcohol in their system she was in possession of alcohol as well. He took that charge to the court and convinced Judge Brownhill that while it was an odd way to charge someone the girl needed the help of the system, that her family wasn't providing her with proper supervision. Because of this the court should place her on probation and let the juvenile dept. supervise her. This is a typical tactic of that department. They often convince the court that the charge may not make a lot of sense but that the end justifies the means so to speak.

In the case of Quinton Doe they convince the same judge that he was in need of "help" and as a result of some horseplay he engaged in with another young person, a girl, he should be convicted of sex abuse I. While playing basketball with her and some other teenagers he grabbed her outside of her clothing in the crotch area. Because he grabbed her in the crotch area and because of her age they could technically make the charge. They convinced the court that he needed the systems "help." He was adjudicated on the charge and ordered to be sent to residential sex offender treatment. What the court didn't consider was SO treatment centers can and will refuse to admit persons based on their behaviors, or in this case lack there of. Quinton was sent to several Tx centers and was basically discharged from each based on the fact he wasn't really an SO. Eventually he was sent to foster care because the juvenile dept. refused to let him return to his home within the county. While at foster care he was found to have a brain tumor. After an operation at OSHU the OYA finally sent him home, in part due to the fact that foster homes wouldn't accept clients with such major medical care needs. Mr. Englebritsen and the juvenile dept. were very unhappy with the move. At one point Mr. Englebritsen called the OYA and demanded Quinton be re-removed from the community saying "yesterday he was walking in MY neighborhood, when are you going to get him out of here!?"

This is very typical of Mr. Englebritsen. He constantly makes statements regarding minorities like "I don't know why those people would even want to move here, there's no need for them to live here, they should live some place where there's other's like them." You should most certainly look into any case that he's dealt with. He's a racist and a bigot. He makes decisions to remove children from their homes based not on law or facts but rather based on his bigoted beliefs.