“Run the search with all five terms, from January 1, 2023, and tell me what it finds.”
He asks Department of State Lands, “Run the search with all five terms, from January 1, 2023, and tell me what it finds.”
Public Records Officer,
On November 2, 2026, you wrote: “Oregon State Police would be the custodian of any record that is in the form of an email to or from the OSP Public Information Officer and/or Captain Kyle Kennedy that does not include any DSL staff as a contact.”1
I did not request Oregon State Police records. I requested yours: your agency’s email with the two OSP addresses named in my request.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
In the same letter you described the search you ran: a Microsoft Purview search of the email accounts of all current and former DSL employees, on November 2, 2026, with this query: (("threat assessment" OR "situational awareness" OR "welfare check" OR "grievance")) (c:c) (((Participants:kyle.kennedy@osp.oregon.gov) OR (Participants:osppio@osp.oregon.gov))) AND (Date>2023-01-01).1 My request names five terms.2 The query holds four; “knock and talk” is not among them. My request’s date range begins on January 1, 2023; the query’s begins after it.
A response is complete when the public body provides “all requested records within the possession or custody of the public body” [ORS 192.329(2)(a)]. A search for four of five terms does not show that.
Run the search with all five terms, from January 1, 2023, and tell me what it finds. Follow the statute [ORS 192.329(2)(a)].
Thank you for your contribution to the record.
