“Why ask me to confirm a meaning your own letter has already set out?”
He answers Department of State Lands on what his request covers, email to or from two Oregon State Police addresses, and asks, “Why ask me to confirm a meaning your own letter has already set out?”
Public Records Officer,
On November 3, 2026, you asked: “To confirm for my next query, you wish for any emails that mention either OSP Public Information Officer or Captain Kyle Kennedy, either by name or email address, and not emails to or from them?”1
No. My request asks for “All emails, including attachments and replies, sent to or received from either of these Oregon State Police addresses.”2 You quoted those words to me in the same letter. They mean what they say: email to or from those two addresses that contains any of the five terms, from January 1, 2023, to the date of search.
Why ask me to confirm a meaning your own letter has already set out? The words are plain. Read them as they are written.
Then answer the request: provide the records, or withhold them under an exemption, charge a fee for making them available, or both. An exemption is asserted for records in your custody [ORS 192.329(2)(b)], and a fee reimburses the actual cost of making records available [ORS 192.324(4)(a)]. Either one begins with saying the records exist.
Every answer you give shows me how your office applies the law. I have not seen this one before. Follow the statute [ORS 192.329(2)].
Thank you for your contribution to the record.
