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Why does UO redact employee names in public records requests

but not the name of the person making the request?

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2 Comments

  1. just different 06/22/2015

    I don’t think they’re redactions. I thought that if anything it was a way to make the nature of the request clearer, since requests for public records are themselves public records. It’s not a secret who any of the people mentioned are.

    • Fishwrapper 06/23/2015

      A request for such records is a request for correspondence between positions, not individuals. When one writes from from a uoregon.edu address, one is communicating from an office, not from a person; any actions covered in such correspondence are the actions of the institution, as represented by the office – indeed, that office is occupied by a person, but that person is doing the business of the office.

      At least in theory.

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