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Oregon's aid-and-assist waitlist, from the public record

A federal court order sets a 7-day admission standard for Oregon's aid-and-assist (competency) referrals. This page tracks what OSH's own court-monitor and neutral-expert reports publish — a genuinely volatile record, not a one-way trend.

Built and maintained by Sudhanshu Rai, an independent researcher; not affiliated with any court, agency, or party. Descriptive measurement only — no causal claims. Not legal advice — nothing here states your legal rights or deadlines in any individual case, or reaches a conclusion about any party's compliance, liability, or wrongdoing; consult a licensed attorney about a specific matter.

Governing order: federal 7-day admission standard for aid-and-assist (competency) referrals, under Disability Rights Oregon v. Mink (originally Mink v. Baldwin), 3:02-cv-00339, D. Or., with subsequent remedial orders. A district-court contempt order allows fines to accrue for continued non-compliance; the fines KPI above reflects amounts accrued under that order, not a one-time penalty.
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Oregon172 rows · 8 columns · 2021-12–2026-03
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Compliance, 2025-08
7.5%
Percent of that month's admissions within the 7-day standard. Only 3 monthly readings exist in the source reports located so far — too sparse to chart as a trend; shown here as the latest available reading only. This is a sharp reversal, not a consistently low rate: the prior located reading (2024-04) was 90.6%.
Source: 2025.09.05-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — page.7 ↗
Avg. admission wait, 2025-11
19.1days
Average wait for that month's admitted cohort (flow metric, not the waitlist below).
Source: 2025.12.06-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — page.14 ↗
Waitlist stock, 2026-03
60people
Currently on OSH's admission list with a signed order. Peak on record: 104 (2022-12).
Source: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.9 ↗
Contempt fines accrued, 2026-03
3.19$M
Accrued under the district court's contempt order for non-compliance with the 7-day standard.
Source: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — page.7 ↗
Waitlist stock, not a smoothed trend

How many people are currently waiting

Each point is OSH's own snapshot count of people on the admission list with a signed order, 2022-01–2026-03. This series is genuinely volatile — periods of near-compliance have been followed by real backslides, more than once. Shown exactly as reported, not smoothed into a cleaner-looking trend line.

0501002022-01: 93 people, avg 22.5d waiting — 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.9 (avg-days figure: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.10)2022-05: 67 people, avg 16.2d waiting — 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.9 (avg-days figure: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.10)2022-09: 70 people, avg 19.8d waiting — 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.9 (avg-days figure: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.10)2022-12: 104 people, avg 20.7d waiting — 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.9 (avg-days figure: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.10)2023-04: 51 people, avg 11.1d waiting — 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.9 (avg-days figure: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.10)2023-07: 42 people, avg 9.3d waiting — 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.9 (avg-days figure: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.10)2023-11: 24 people, avg 3.5d waiting — 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.9 (avg-days figure: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.10)2024-04: 11 people, avg 5.4d waiting — 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.9 (avg-days figure: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.10)2024-11: 76 people, avg 12.6d waiting — 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.9 (avg-days figure: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.10)2025-04: 79 people, avg 14.3d waiting — 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.9 (avg-days figure: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.10)2025-08: 33 people, avg 4.7d waiting — 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.9 (avg-days figure: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.10)2025-11: 54 people, avg 9.0d waiting — 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.9 (avg-days figure: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.10)2026-03: 60 people, avg 9.2d waiting — 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.9 (avg-days figure: 2026.03.16-Oregon-Mink-Bowman-Court-Monitor-Report.pdf — Table 1, page.10)2022-012022-122023-112025-042026-03

Stock (a snapshot headcount) is a different measure from the compliance-percent and average-wait KPIs above, which are flow metrics for that month's admitted cohort — the two are reported separately in the source documents and shown separately here, not combined. Readings are genuinely irregular (not a fixed monthly cadence) — points are spaced by actual elapsed time, and a dashed segment marks any gap longer than this series' typical interval.

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Data quality and reporting limitations

Oregon's compliance-percent and average-wait figures (flow metrics, tied directly to the 7-day standard) are reported far less consistently than Washington's — only a handful of readings have been located in the source reports so far, too sparse to chart as a trend. The waitlist-stock series above is denser and used as the primary chart for that reason, not because it's the more legally relevant number. An open question, not resolved by this data: the court's own neutral expert, Dr. Debra Pinals, has raised a possible "silting" pattern in her 8th and 9th reports — people "silting up in the community restoration system" as fewer are restored in the hospital, a pattern that could mask improvement in the inpatient numbers above. This rebuild has no data of its own confirming or refuting that pattern; it's flagged here as a real, sourced concern the neutral expert raised directly, not as an established fact this project's own data demonstrates.
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Oregon172 rows · 8 columns · 2021-12–2026-03
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Competency Restoration Observatory (2026). Oregon aid-and-assist waitlist series [dataset]. competencyrestoration.org · data current through 2026-03 · page generated August 2026 · concept DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21436450 (always resolves to the latest dataset version — a version-pinned DOI matching this exact data window follows at the next Zenodo release).

Every figure regenerates from the public source reports by code — fully reproducible. The Zenodo deposit already includes real, MIT-licensed extraction code for the frozen Washington/Oregon study (an extraction pipeline plus its own verification gate) — but this dashboard's own full 5-state codebase (adapted from that study's code, plus Colorado, Texas, and California from scratch) is a separate, not-yet-public repository. A dedicated "Build & Replicate" walkthrough page and that public release are both planned but not yet published.

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