Laine v. City of Rockaway Beach

Plaintiff initiated this action to compel the City of Rockaway Beach (the city) to disclose documents relating to the operation of the Rockaway Beach Fire Department (the fire department) and generated by the fire department before September 1991. Plaintiff contends that the fire department was, before its incorporation as a private, nonprofit entity in 1991, a “public body” subject to the Oregon Public Records Law, ORS 192.410 et seq, and that the city is the custodian of the fire department’s records. The city contends that the fire department was a private, volunteer entity, which was not…