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• ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN KROGER ANNOUNCES GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE

  This is - potentially - a very significant step towards the reform of Oregon's public records process. Here is the press release:
  
  ATTORNEY GENERAL JOHN KROGER ANNOUNCES GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE December 2, 2009Initiative seeks to improve Oregon's open government laws
  
  Attorney General John Kroger today [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:00pm EST
  

• More from Carl Malamud

  10/30/2009: Carl Malamud of public.resource.org has now posted still more "copyrighted" manuals from the Oregon DOJ for download as printable, searchable pdfs. All free.
  gov.oregon.ag.adminlaw.2008.pdf 30-Oct-2009 13:43 48M Attorney General's Administrative Law Manual
  gov.oregon.ag.contracts.2008.pdf 30-Oct-2009 12:41 55M Attorney General's Public Contracts Manual
  gov.oregon.ag.meetings.2008.pdf 26-Oct-2009 12:21 5.8M [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:56pm EDT
  

• Free, clean searchable pdf of the Oregon Public Records Manual

  10/26/2009: (short repost with link to new pdf)
  
  Every 2 years the Oregon DOJ publishes the "Oregon Attorney General's Public Records and Meetings Manual". Essential reading for people trying to use their right to get public records from Oregon government agencies. The Oregon DOJ has been trying to keep' [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 4:42pm EDT
  

• Carl Malamud in Oregon

  
  I've been lax on updates, but a lot has been happening on the public records front. Carl Malamud from public.resource.org made a sweep through Oregon - giving talks at Attorney General Kroger's law school, Lewis and Clark, and the University of Oregon Library, with [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 7:47pm EDT
  

• Go here for ...

  Go here for the original post about the Oregon DOJ's efforts to keep the "Attorney General's Public Records and Meeting Manual" off the internet, with a copy of their letter warning me not to redistribute it, and with links to the free and illegal pdfs. [...]
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  Posted: September 23, 2009, 6:51am EDT
  

• public records fight continues:

  9/23/2009: In the RG David Steves has a story about the irony of the DOJ' efforts to keep the Manual off the net. They now say they've been planning to post it all along.
  
  9/17/2009: Carl Malamud of public.resource.org has now sent Oregon Attorney General Kroger [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 11:52am EDT
  

• AG's PR manual update

  9/17/2009 update: When I first posted this I was a little nervous - one guy with a laptop against the 500 lawyers in the Oregon DOJ. Then Jack Bog, Jeff Mapes, Richard Coe at The Bend Bulletin, slashdot.org and Volokh.com wrote about it. I got thousands [...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 8:50pm EDT
  

• Oregon Attorney General's Public Records and Meetings Manual

  Update: See here for more "copyrighted" law manuals from the Oregon DOJ, and here for a nice clean compact OCR'd pdf of the "Oregon Attorney General's Public Records and Meetings Manual" all courtesy of Carl Malamud at public.resource.org.
  
  9/14/2009: Every 2 years the Oregon DOJ publishes [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 7:16am EDT
  

• Attorney General Issues New FOIA Guidelines to Favor Disclosure and Transparency

  Sorry - false alarm. This is for the Federal Government, not Oregon.
  
  Below is the memo US Attorney General Eric Holder sent out March 9 2009, 6 weeks after his senate confirmation. Here in Oregon, we are still awaiting similar action from our Oregon Attorney General John Kroger. No [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2009, 7:10am EDT
  

• PRR Deadlines in the rest of the US

  This table shows the maximum number of working days agencies can take to provide public records in those 35 states that give a statutory deadline or where one has been established by courts. Half the states allow no more than 5 working days.
  
  Former Oregon AG Hardy Myers [...]
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  Posted: January 26, 2009, 9:17am EST
  

• PRR to OUS: Board members use of private email addresses

  OUS board members currently use private email addresses to conduct public business. This means you can't get information about internal discussions about public business. This is a PR request for information on how to fix this.:
  
  Dear Chancellor Pernsteiner and Mr. Hagemann:
  
  Nearly 2 months ago I asked' [...]
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  Posted: January 26, 2009, 2:48am EST
  

• Public Records request to UO for AA plan date

  UO President Dave Frohnmayer has been backdating Affirmative Action plans, to make it look as if UO has been complying with federal regulations. This PR request asks for information on this within 5 days.:
  
  Dear President Frohnmayer and Mr. Park:
  
  This is a public records request for any [...]
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  Posted: January 26, 2009, 2:41am EST