Oregon Sunshine Committee outlines recommendations to tighten public-records exemptions
The volunteer Oregon Sunshine Committee told the Senate Judiciary Committee it has reviewed more than 250 exemptions and recommends avoiding new carve-outs, housing necessary exemptions within existing statute, and adding public-interest balancing tests; the group also criticized late release of Open Government Impact Statements.
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The Oregon Sunshine Committee presented its biennial report to the Senate Interim Committee on Judiciary on June 15, urging lawmakers to resist creating new exemptions to public-records law and to add procedural safeguards when exemptions are necessary. "Our main charge is to examine all of the voluminous exemptions to public records law in Oregon, with an eye on improving transparency," Morgan Smith, vice chair of the committee, told senators.
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