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.

On March 6, after reviewing the archive, Detective Hyde wrote:

"Based on the website nothing is standing out to me more than what Parks and Rec sent you. Sounds like this person does have a grievance with the former employer."

Detective Jerred Nelson's report concludes that I made no direct threats, showed no leakage toward violence or violent behavior, and that there is no evidence I committed any crime.

The people who looked found what was there: a man writing letters.

Eighteen days later, they came anyway.

They came on the anniversary.

March 24, 2026 was one year to the day from the phone call dismissing me from Honeyman State Park.

On March 23, Detective Nelson opened a CAD event naming me Suspect. The narrative states the basis: sending concerning emails to former supervisors in the parks department and publicly airing grievances. That is protected activity, written into a police record as the grounds for a suspect designation.

The same day, he sent his sergeant the "Hasty Plan for Robert White knock and talk."

My Forest Service supervisor was told not to advise me that law enforcement was inquiring about my whereabouts and planning to "knock and talk" on my door.

Two detectives and a federal officer came through a locked gate onto restricted federal land knowing there was nothing. And you could have stopped it.

The reason entered in the record was false.

The CAD entry reads:

"FOR THE FOREST SERVICE // FOLLOWUP INTERVIEW W/ ROBERT WHITE"

On July 24, 2026, the District Ranger for the Central Coast Ranger District stated in writing that the Forest Service did not initiate the interview, and that its involvement was limited to unlocking the gate and guiding Oregon State Police to the work center.

The visit was requested by Oregon Parks and Recreation. The record names a federal agency that asked for nothing.

A pretext is required when the actual reason will not survive being written down. The actual reason is in the file: he is now including the Governor. That sentence cannot appear in a dispatch record, because a citizen writing to his Governor is not a police matter, and everyone in that chain knew it.

So the record said something else.

Governor, this is the part that is yours.

Your office was cited as the reason a threat assessment was ordered on a citizen.

I have written to you since November 2025 and have never received a response of any kind. For most of that time you could tell yourself you were declining to weigh a former volunteer's account against a department's.

That is no longer the situation. The department's own records are public, unedited, and not in dispute. They establish that the referral originated at OPRD, that the stated reason was my correspondence with you, that your state police found no threat and no crime before they went, and that the reason placed in the official record was not the real one.

I am asking for an independent investigation. Not an internal review conducted by the people named in these documents, and not a review by the Department of Justice, which has represented every agency involved in this matter.

I have asked you the same question for ten months and I ask it once more.

Does a gay volunteer who documented retaliation and identity-based targeting by state employees deserve an independent investigation? Yes or no?

Robert Samuel White
https://oprdvolunteerabuse.org