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State seeks criminal investigation of Kitzhaber email leak

The Columbian
Published: February 24, 2015, 12:00am

SALEM, Ore. — A state agency has asked the Oregon State Police to investigate the disclosure of some of former Gov. John Kitzhaber’s personal emails to a reporter.

Two workers from the state data center, which handles a wide variety of technology functions for most state agencies including the archival of emails, have also been placed on paid leave pending an internal investigation.

Michael Jordan, director of the Department of Administrative Services, requested the state police investigation last week after a story published in Willamette Week quoted from Kitzhaber’s private emails. They included emails between Kitzhaber and his fiancée, Cylvia Hayes, as well as between the then-governor and a lawyer representing him before the state ethics commission.

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