Biography
Sydney Clifford was one of22 Greenpeace activists federally charged after the September12,2019 Fred Hartman Bridge protest against fossil-fuel exports. The DOJ individually listed Clifford, age21 of Portland,Oregon, among defendants described as in state custody on September13. The federal defendants actually walked free on personal-recognizance bonds September14. The exact individual arrest and initial jail-admission days remain uncertain; the protest day alone is not proof of Clifford's booking that day. No prison sentence was imposed; subsequent dismissal history remains as previously recorded.
Individual booking precision review October13,2026: The original DOJ announcement individually identifies Clifford among September13 defendants described as in state custody, without an exact admission date. Contemporaneous KPRC roster text instead lists the similarly spelled name as not yet in custody with a warrant. The event-wide September12 date cannot resolve this individual timing conflict: arrest/admission are now month precision and the unsupported2-day total is cleared. ABC13's original executed-release account confirms the already stored September14 endpoint. The KPRC mugshots identify other defendants, not Clifford; the photo gap remains unresolved.
