City of Portland v. Rice

In this public records disclosure case, ORS 192.410 et seq, defendants appeal from a declaratory judgment that the records they sought from the Portland Police Bureau’s Internal Investigations Unit (IIU) are exempt from public disclosure under ORS 192.501(13), 1 formerly ORS 192.500(1)(m). We reverse.

The case was tried on stipulated facts. Defendants, victims of a burglary, filed a complaint with IIU concerning the handling and investigation of the burglary by the officers involved. The complaint alleged that (1) the officers were discourteous, (2) the primary investigator’s work was…