Oregon Knowledge Bank

The Oregon Knowledge Bank (OKB) is a resource created for and by the public safety community in Oregon. The OKB focuses on Oregon: its innovative policing, corrections, and community supervision programs; research conducted on criminal justice initiatives here; and public safety agency profiles. Born in 2015 from Oregon’s 2014 Justice Reinvestment Act (HB 3194) - which strongly promotes the use of evidence-based practices and cost-effective programs - the OKB is a collaborative project between the Center for Policing Excellence (or CPE, a unit of the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training) and the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission (CJC). CPE and CJC collaborated to design and develop the Oregon Knowledge Bank as a resource to promote evidence-based practices and be a living library of the work being done in Oregon's public safety community.