Nurse sued over Portland jail overdose death faced earlier suit over fatal OD at different jail, records allege

By Maxine Bernstein | The Oregonian/OregonLive
The lead nurse accused in a lawsuit of failing to administer Narcan to a man who died of a drug overdose suffered at Multnomah County’s Inverness Jail had a history of problems at an earlier job, wasn’t fully forthcoming about her past on her work application and was subsequently fired for making on-the-job racist remarks, new records allege.

Camille Valberg is a defendant in a $10 million civil rights suit filed by the family of Richard Jason Forrest, 37, of Portland. Forrest died in custody in July 2019 from an overdose after using methamphetamine and heroin smuggled into the Northeast Portland jail.

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The suit alleges that men on work crews would pick up packages of drugs left on or near the jail property to bring back with them to jail and that the county failed to maintain a safe jail or provide immediate medical attention.