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Putting Oregon’s Records Law to the Test

Putting Oregon’s Records Law to the Test

by Kira Hoffelmeyer and Russell Wilson
This story examined the weaknesses of Oregon’s public records law using an innovative approach. The reporters asked for all the emails among members of the Attorney General’s Public Records Task Force, which by then had been meeting for six months without any progress. Their story revealed wide disparity in compliance and understanding of the records law even among the people who had appointed to help fix it. It turns out the task force members least reluctant to comply with the records law there the three representatives from the news media.

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