The

Oregon Oregon ( , ) is a U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is a part of the Western U.S., with the Columbia River delineating much of Oregon's northern boundary with Washington (state), Washington, while t ...

Psychiatric Security Review Board (PSRB) supervises people who have successfully asserted the

insanity defense The insanity defense, also known as the mental disorder defense, is an affirmative Defense (legal), defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for their actions due to a mental illness, psychiatric disease ...

to a criminal charge (Guilty Except for Insanity or GEI) in the state, and grants relief from sex offender registrations for GEI sex offenders and firearm possession bans because of mental health determinations.

History

It was created by an Act of July 14, 1977 which became operative on January 1, 1978.

News coverage

The board was the subject of widespread news coverage when the board

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the ''

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'', a small

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, to keep the board's records secret after the

Oregon Attorney General The Oregon attorney general is a statutory officer within the executive branch of the U.S. state, state of Oregon, and serves as the chief legal officer of the state, heading its Oregon Department of Justice, Department of Justice with its six op ...

ordered their release. The records concerned a psychiatric patient of the

Oregon State Hospital Oregon State Hospital is a public psychiatric hospital in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the state's capital city of Salem, Oregon, Salem with a smaller satellite campus in Junction City, Oregon, Junction City opened in 2014. Founded in ...

committed in 1997 after kidnapping and threatening to kill his wife and son, who the PSRB released because he likely didn't suffer from (and likely never had) a mental disease or defect, and then was subsequently 3 weeks later accused of kidnapping and murdering his ex-wife.

References

External links

* 1977 establishments in Oregon State agencies of Oregon {{Oregon-gov-stub