A short summary goes here about the Oregon Public Records Law. Click here to viewOregon Public Records Law(pdf file).
Minutes to public meetings are included as records accessible to the public. Oregon entered the union on February 14, 1859. The state capital is in Salem, the most populous city is Portland. The total population of the state is 3.8 million which entitles Oregon to five delegates to the U....
Thanks to grants from the National Freedom of Information Coalition, Open Oregon has published a quick reference guide to Oregon’s Public Records law, and has revised a republished the quick reference guide to Oregon’s Public Meetings Law. The funding for these guides came through a grant from...
Public Meetings Law is not a “public participation law.” The right of the public to attend meetings does not include the right to participate by giving testimony or comment. The presiding office has the inherent authority to keep order and impost reasonable restrictions necessary for the orderly...
Since moving back to the USA in 2009, and before the pandemic, I attended a lot of public meetings by local, state and national officials, both elected and otherwise, and for some meetings, I live-tweeted what was happening. My goal was to try to generate some excitement for civic engage...
investigations at our meetings, especially when events are more than "lights in the sky," of which we've had a few over the months and years we've been doing investigation. There is no better way to get into UFOs and understand them from the ground up than investigating them "on the ...
The use of physical restraint or seclusion on a student in a public education program in the State of Oregon is prohibited unless used in the following manner: The student's behavior imposes a reasonable threat of imminent, serious bodily injury to the student or others; and ...
These summer meetings have become very popular, and are attended by all the teachers in the Catholic schools of the archdiocese. Prominent educators from various sections of the country are invited to address the institute. The meetings serve also to promote interchange of ideas and good fellow-...
Women engineers at New Relic at one of their regularly scheduled meetings in 2016. (Stephanie Yao Long) New Relic No. 6, midsize employers The publicly traded information technology company is marking its 10th anniversary this year. Its Portland office is on the Top Workplaces list for a sixt...
New Federal Law Alert New law providing emergency sick time and paid leave related to COVID-19 and how it will impact your business Read More Barnes Workgroup Partnership It is mutually understood that the public can be best served only if there is a working relationship between the Employer ...