Pamplin Media Grp. v. City of Salem

*1021*757Plaintiff in this public records case is the publisher of the Woodburn Independent newspaper. After learning of the arrest of a former Woodburn-area resident on allegations that he had sexually abused a minor, one of plaintiff's reporters asked the police department of the City of Salem, defendant in this case, to release the record of that arrest. See ORS 192.345(3) (requiring disclosure to the public of "the record of an arrest").1 The city refused to release any information about the arrest, asserting that all reports related to the police investigation and the subsequent arrest were…