Captain Sloan,

I'm sending this to you as a courtesy.

You redirected me to FOIA and I pursued it. I choose not to file with the Forestry out of respect for our District Ranger and for the Forest Service we both serve.

My focus, as it has always been, is on accountability at the state level. They expelled me for protected speech and put it in writing. They did that because I documented abuse I experienced as a volunteer with them. What your officer opened at that gate was retaliation delivered on the one year anniversary of that experience. Did you know that?

I don't know how to reconcile that anymore than you probably do. It happened. It's part of the record. And I'm doing my best to focus on the ones who truly harmed me. And I do understand your silence around my questions, but you are letting an impossible characterization stand: that Oregon State Police were here because you wanted them here. How can that possibly be true? Who gave them my birthdate and the location where I live? What does "for the Forest Service" mean?

I cannot separate this from the accountability I am seeking from the State of Oregon -- who it was that deliberately used police to intimidate me, how they can justify a letter that cites only my protected speech as cause for anything -- because your officer participated, and to protect him, you can't protect me, even though duty compels it.

I am willing to indemnify your entire institution for this act, in writing, if you acknowledge it honestly. I only care that the record is accurate, and the record shows you were used as much as anyone. They tried to drive a wedge into a relationship that was not theirs to influence. Where do you stand in this?

Robert Samuel White

From: Robert Samuel White <rsw@rswfire.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2026 3:47:22 PM
To: PublicRecordsOrder@doj.oregon.gov <PublicRecordsOrder@doj.oregon.gov>
Cc: governor.kotek@oregon.gov <governor.kotek@oregon.gov>; Records, Central <central.records@osp.oregon.gov>
Subject: Petition for Public Records Order — Robert Samuel White / Oregon State Police (PR27478; CAD SP26097765)

To the Public Records Advocate / Attorney General's Office:

I petition the Attorney General for a Public Records Order under ORS 192.411, ORS 192.324(6), and ORS 192.407. The public body is the Oregon State Police, Central Records Section. The request is PR27478, submitted April 3, 2026, concerning OSP CAD event SP26097765.

In brief: OSP issued a "no records" determination on April 3, 2026. Ten days later a responsive CAD record was printed inside its Central Records Section; it was produced to me on July 14, 2026 — in full, with no exemption claimed and no fee charged — after being conditioned for three months on a $12.50 payment and a mailed paper form. One hundred and ten days after the request, five of the requested categories remain without any disposition, no exemption has been cited for anything, the search has never been described, the fee waiver has never been ruled on, and the litigation preservation notice I served on April 2, 2026 has never been acknowledged.

The attached petition sets out the record in full and states the relief requested. The exhibits (1–25) are the complete correspondence and the produced record, in a single indexed and page-labeled PDF; the exhibit index appears in Section VII of the petition. I am not asking the Attorney General to make any finding about the underlying event — only to require Oregon State Police to respond to a public records request as the statute requires.

I can provide any exhibit as a separate file on request.

Respectfully,

Robert Samuel White
P.O. Box 334, Reedsport, Oregon 97467
rsw@rswfire.com — [phone]