“Tell me in writing whether your agency is the custodian, or name the public body that is.”
He answers the agency’s October 27, 2026, letter and asks whether it is the custodian, writing, “Tell me in writing whether your agency is the custodian, or name the public body that is.”
Public Records Officer,
On October 27, 2026, you wrote: “We are not sure we are the custodians of the records you are requesting.”1
My request is for your agency’s own records.2 The Attorney General’s manual for public bodies says that “any public body that possesses or owns a public record for purposes related to one or more of its particular functions is a custodian of that record.”3
Tell me in writing whether your agency is the custodian, or name the public body that is. Follow the statute [ORS 192.324(2), ORS 192.329(2)(d)].
Thank you for your contribution to the record.
