8/12/2013 update: The Daily Emerald is trying to use Dave Hubin’s public records office to get to the bottom of things: Strategic Communication emails Requester: Crump, JakeOrganization: Oregon Daily EmeraldInitial Request Date: 08/12/2013 Status: Requesting/Reviewing Records To view any and all emails dated Aug. 1 through Aug. 11, between UO…
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8/7/2013: From Reuters: … It said it was charged “arbitrary and excessive” fees to find the records and told further fees would be assessed for lawyers to review and segregate the records before release, the union said in a statement on Wednesday. The lawsuit, filed on July 25 in Multnomah County…
8/7/2013: Want to get a copy of the Duck game contracts? Less than 24 hours turnaround, and no fee: Nicholls State Game ContractRequester: Stites, SamOrganization: Register GuardInitial Request Date: 08/06/2013Status: Records ProvidedRequest Completion Date: 08/06/2013a request for the “football game contract” or other similar document or documents between the University…
8/1/2013 update: That was back in April, for the Jan, Feb and March invoices. Now UO is stonewalling again. Almost 2 months since I asked Dave Hubin and Randy Geller for the April, May, and June invoices for Rudnick, and the other firms advising the admin bargaining team. The DOJ…
7/28/2013: Laura Fosmire from the Salem Statesman Journal has the story, and some sad quotes: Public access to information: F This was Oregon’s worst score, largely because of a culture of confusion and misunderstanding stemming from the more than 400 exemptions in the public records law. As time has gone on,…
7/27/2013: Plus another $56,000 to the San Fran anti-union firm, Curiale, Hirschfeld and Kraemer. Or that’s the rumor tonight around the faculty club BBQ pit. I don’t believe all the HLGR money is for bargaining, part of it must be for some lawsuit Geller isn’t competent to deal with in-house.…
7/26/2013: “Around the O” releases details on Gottfredson’s official calendar. Just kidding, it’s a puff piece about his trip to Fort Rock: Participants in this year’s tour included UO President Michael Gottfredson and his wife, Karol; Interim Provost Scott Coltrane and his wife, Wendy; Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy and her…
7/19/2013: Mark Johnson of the RG sports desk gets another dump of Kelly/Lyles docs from UO – 3 months after he made the public records request. UO NCAA Rep and former law professor Jim O’Fallon used to argue that these sorts of records were top secret, despite the DOJ ruling below,…
7/18/2013: No, of course this is not from Journalism Dean Tim Gleason at UO, he’s busy thinking up reasons to hide public records from UO’s student journalists. It’s from the storied University of Missouri School of Journalism. I’d suggest you donate, but 2 days into it they’re already well over their…
7/9/2013: Oregonian story here, his ruling on the limits of the privilege here.
7/5/2013: Diane Dietz of the RG had a story last month on the problems with UO’s public records office, here. Now the Student Press Law Center has a report on UO’s efforts to prevent the Oregon Commentator, a student publication, from seeing President’s Gottfredson’s official calendar. Erlichman and Haldeman Hubin…
6/25/2013: UO’s student-journalists at the Daily Emerald have started a non-profit to raise money to pay the fees UO charges them to see public records about UO. Their explanation is here and the donate button is here. Note that all donations are public. Dave Hubin’s response, in the form of a letter…
Update: Can Oregon’s flagship university stay in the AAU? If so what do we need to do? That seems like a question of public interest. But not to President Gottfredson, whose public records office is trying to charge UO student journalists $94 for the records: Public records fees charged by the…
6/6/2013 update: AAD for finance Eric Roedl’s secret athletic slides, with redactions, here. Oregon Commentator Nick Ekblad got them via a public records request, after the IAC voted to kick him out of their meeting on budgets and athletic subsidies. More below. Why in the world would the blacked out…
Fees for reporters, subsidies for propaganda
7/15/2013: We’ve written before about the $104K cost of “Around the O”. Here are two much worse examples of how UO is making work more difficult for real reporters, while spending public money on what amounts to propaganda. I suppose you could argue this is good for UO in the…