PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST TO THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
September 5, 2026, 2:19 PM
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR OF OREGON · PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST
Office of the Governor · To Cameron D. Miles, Office of the Governor
Thirteen numbered categories covering everything the office holds: constituent tracking and routing of every letter, internal briefings, communications with OPRD, OSP, DOJ and DAS, records of the Governor being personally informed, campaign-adjacent communications on state systems, and records in personal accounts. Native format, fee waiver on public interest grounds, litigation hold noted under claim P195403.
From
Robert Samuel White
To
Cameron D Miles
Cc
Governor Kotek; [Kotek Campaign Chair]
Date
September 5, 2026, 2:19 PM PT
Subject
Public records request under ORS 192.311 to 192.478
Document
01M1SQ1ZF04E04FHP6PEEXPVH2
This is a request under the Oregon Public Records Law. I am Robert Samuel White, date of birth April 11, 1977. I served as an unpaid volunteer with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department at Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park. I was dismissed on March 24, 2025. The letter permanently excluding me from all OPRD volunteer programs, citing my public comments about staff, is dated March 26, 2025. The Department's own report to Oregon State Police states that I was "dismissed from volunteering with OPRD on 3/25/25 and flagged as ineligible for future service" — a date one day earlier than the written notice I received, and a determination for which I was never given notice at all. I have written to the Office of the Governor concerning that matter beginning November 18, 2025, and have been a party to or subject of correspondence with that office on dozens of occasions. On September 3, 2026, Oregon State Police produced its file on me under PR27478. That production shows that on March 3, 2026 an OPRD Emergency Manager notified Oregon State Police about me, and gave as the stated reason that I was "now including the Governor as well as our Director." That email alleged no crime, described no threat, and quoted no statement of mine. A threat assessment was ordered the following morning by the captain of OSP Government and Media Relations. On March 24, 2026, one year to the day of that retaliatory dismissal, two OSP detectives and a federal officer came to my residence. Unless otherwise noted, the period requested is February 1, 2025 to the present. I request the following. 1. All records concerning me held by the Office of the Governor in any division or function, including records indexed under Robert White, Robert Samuel White, Robert S. White, Sam White, rsw@rswfire.com, oprdvolunteerabuse.org, rswfire.com, or my date of birth. 2. All records reflecting the receipt, routing, logging, assignment, review, or disposition of correspondence I sent to the Office of the Governor. This includes constituent services tracking system entries, case or ticket records, routing notes, assignment records, internal forwarding, and any record of a decision not to respond. 3. Any summary, briefing note, memorandum, talking point, or other internal document prepared about me or about the matter described in my correspondence, and any record identifying who prepared it and for whom. 4. All communications between the Office of the Governor and the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department concerning me, including any communication with Director Lisa Sumption, Deputy Director J.R. Collier, or any OPRD employee. 5. All communications between the Office of the Governor and Oregon State Police concerning me, including any communication concerning the March 24, 2026 contact at my residence, OSP case SP26096984, or CAD event SP26097765. 6. All communications between the Office of the Governor and the Oregon Department of Justice, the Department of Administrative Services, or any other state or federal agency concerning me. 7. Any record reflecting that the Governor was personally informed of this matter, in any form, on any date, and any record reflecting a direction, instruction, or decision given by the Governor or her staff concerning it. 8. Any record of a meeting, call, or briefing at which this matter, my correspondence, or I was discussed. This includes calendar entries, meeting invitations, agendas, notes taken during or after, and any record identifying who was present. 9. Any recurring or periodic briefing document produced for the Governor or her senior staff — daily or weekly issue summaries, constituent correspondence reports, agency issue reports, or equivalent — in which I, my correspondence, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department's handling of it, or the archive at oprdvolunteerabuse.org appears. 10. All communications concerning me between any Office of the Governor employee and any person acting for the Kotek campaign, to the extent held on state systems or by state employees. 11. Any record described above held in a personal email account, personal device, or non-state messaging application by an Office of the Governor employee, where the record concerns state business regarding me. 12. Any record reflecting the disclosure of my personal information, including my date of birth, my residence, my correspondence, or my volunteer file, by the Office of the Governor to any person or agency. 13. All records concerning the archive at oprdvolunteerabuse.org, my public records requests, my notice of tort claim served September 3, 2026, DAS Risk Management claim P195403, or the legal fund I have opened in this matter. Administration Fee waiver. I request a waiver under ORS 192.324(5). Disclosure primarily benefits the general public. These records concern whether correspondence from a citizen to his Governor was the stated basis for a state police threat assessment, and an intimidating "knock and talk" behind a locked gate on restricted federal land, and how that correspondence was handled by the office that received it. I have no commercial purpose. All records produced will be published in full, at no charge, at oprdvolunteerabuse.org. Acknowledgment and timeline. ORS 192.324(2) requires acknowledgment or completion within five business days, and ORS 192.329(5) requires a reasonable estimated completion date where a response cannot be completed within fifteen business days. I request both in writing. Fees. ORS 192.324(4) prohibits a fee exceeding $25 without prior written notice. If a fee is to be charged, I request that notice with an itemized basis before any work is performed, and the opportunity to narrow the request rather than have it held pending payment. Format. Electronic delivery by email or secure link. I am specifying format at the time of this request, as your office's published policy requires: I request records in their native format with links, metadata, and attachments preserved and intact — not converted to PDF. Email should be produced in a format that retains full headers, recipients, timestamps, and attachments. I have no ability to receive or return printed forms. Preservation. Please treat all records responsive to this request as subject to litigation hold. I have served a notice of tort claim on the State of Oregon under ORS 30.275 concerning the conduct described above, and DAS Risk Management has opened claim P195403. Disposition. For each numbered item, please state whether responsive records exist, produce them, or cite the specific exemption claimed for each record or portion withheld, as ORS 192.329(2) requires. If the Office is not the custodian of a category, please identify the custodian rather than closing the request as to that category. ORS 192.311(2)(b). Robert Samuel White oprdvolunteerabuse.org