GOVERNOR, YOUR OFFICE WAS THE REASON

September 3, 2026, 1:18 PM
OREGON STATE POLICE · LETTER SENT

Oregon State Police · To Governor Tina Kotek
To the Governor, on the production: the referral originated at OPRD, its stated reason was correspondence that included her office, the police found no threat and no crime before they came, and the reason entered in the dispatch record was not the real one. The request: an independent investigation, not an internal review by the people named in the documents and not by the Department of Justice, which has represented every agency involved.
From
Robert Samuel White
To
Governor Kotek
Cc
Deputy Director JR Collier; Director Lisa Sumption; OPRD Commissioners; Micah Hubbard, OSP; OSP Risk; Representative Boomer Wright, House District 9; Senator Dick Anderson, Senate District 5
Date
September 3, 2026, 1:18 PM PT
Subject
Governor, your office was the reason.
Document
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Governor Kotek,

On September 3, 2026, at 10:25 AM, Oregon State Police produced sixteen files under public records request PR27478: the Major Crimes Section threat-assessment report SP26096984 with its attachments, both CAD records, dispatch audio, and the Department's electronic
communications.

The production is published in full, unedited, with every original file, at:

https://oprdvolunteerabuse.org/accountability/osp/01M1M4WF78XJPEJJ48D1JZ4SJ8/

Four documents the produced records reference as attached are not among the files: the body-worn camera video, the "OSP Hasty Form Robert White" knock-and-talk plan, the DMV record pulled through the FBI task force, and "ReportRobertWhite.pdf."

I am writing to you because your office is named in the document that started it.

It began at Oregon Parks and Recreation.

On March 3, 2026, OPRD Emergency Manager Jamen Lee wrote to Oregon State Police Captain Kyle Kennedy of Government and Media Relations. Deputy Director J.R. Collier was copied. The stated reason:

"Fyi - sharing for situational awareness since he is now including the Governor as well as our Director."

The following morning, the order:

"Capt. Kennedy is requesting that a threat assessment be conducted asap."

The threat assessment was ordered by the office of Government and Media Relations.

I first wrote to your office on November 18, 2025 — a formal complaint documenting institutional abuse, retaliation for protected speech, and violation of the Oregon Public Records Law. I wrote again on December 18, December 19, January 9, January 14, February
15, and twice on March 3, 2026. Every one of those letters is published in the archive. You were cc'ed on at least 32 different documents during this time.

Lee's email was sent on March 3 with a characterization that these letters had just started.

By then I had been writing to you for three and a half months, and nothing about that had produced a police referral. Nothing in my conduct changed in March. What changed is that someone at your Parks Department decided it had gone on long enough.

The stated basis for referring a citizen to the state police was that he had petitioned his Governor.

The escalation was letters.

That is what your Parks Department reported. Not a threat. Not a visit. Not a call, not an approach. Letters, written by a man three hours from Salem, addressed to the officials responsible, copied to your office, and published as they were sent.

Every act of mine in that file is a document. Every one carries my name and my address. Every one was sent openly to the people it concerned.

Your state police cleared me before they came.

The case went to the Major Crimes Section and to Detective Jake Hyde, a task force officer with the Portland FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. He circulated my name to FBI personnel and obtained my DMV record. A fusion center analyst documented the activity.
Documents
The record (PDF)
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