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The high cost of government transparency in Oregon (Column)

Posted on June 29, 2016

Last year, The Oregonian/OregonLive requested an electronic database of property recorded into evidence by the Portland Police Bureau. The estimated cost of making those public records public?

$1,042,450.20.

It was a bit out of our price range. Continue…

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Tagged First Freedom Award, Oregon Attorney General’s Public Records Task Force, records requests fees

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