SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s Attorney General is making his case for changing the state’s public records law.
Democrat John Kroger told a state Senate committee on Monday that Oregon’s open records law is a convoluted legal mess that should be cleaned up to help both the public and government agencies.
Kroger has proposed a bill that would decrease the number of government records that cannot be publicly released. It also would impose deadlines for government agencies to comply with public records requests and cap the fees that agencies can charge for preparing public records.
Opponents, including officials from local governments, say deadlines and fee caps would be burdensome.
