FEBRUARY 9, 2025 — ONGOING
TIMELINE
February — March 2025.
- February 9, 2025I raise the park supervisor's response to operational questions about power outage protocols in a follow-up email the same day. The park manager speaks to me alone, listing first-week mistakes. I try to reset.
- March 2, 2025
- March 5, 2025The park manager and the park supervisor hold me at a picnic table for sixty-two minutes. I record it in full. On the recording: a handwritten sheet and no emails at the table, “You don’t have to agree with it”, fifteen years in the agency, the disciplinary processes, HR, “chew glass and swallow it”, one day and one text message counted as two incidents and called a pattern, “I may not be able to help you with that”. Chapter Six of the testimony is this meeting.
- March 10, 2025The program manager calls about the March 5 recording and tells me I was “acting as an agent of the state.” In a second call the same day: “get through my time.”
- March 18, 2025While I clean yurts alone during a regional event, an unidentified man approaches me and asks how leadership treats me. I document the encounter with the park supervisor the same day. Her explanation: I.T. staff updating site photos. No photos were ever produced.
- March 24, 2025The park manager dismisses me by phone, six days before my scheduled completion, with twenty-four hours to vacate the park where I live. The stated reason: a lost journal. An hour later he collects the keys at my RV and states on camera that no formal documentation exists.
- March 25, 2025The program manager calls. I record the call. She opens by telling me the dismissal is “still moving forward” and “that’s not going to be overturned”.
- March 26, 2025I send a detailed letter to the program manager. Hours later OPRD excludes me permanently from every state parks volunteer program, citing “the public comments made about staff.” The call the letter answers is in the archive.
May — December 2025.
- May 26, 2025I name the March 18 encounter directly to the program manager in “For the Record - March 20 Field Encounter”, and what the email thread shows. No response.
- August 15, 2025I raise the March 18 encounter with Director Lisa Sumption in “The Setup You Now Own” and ask three questions: do the photos exist, were they published, was the encounter logged. No response.
- August 22, 2025I submit a comprehensive public records request carrying a mailing address and an email address. On August 28 the institution calls to narrow the scope; I decline and ask for everything in writing. Nothing arrives at either address.
- August 24, 2025I send the open letter to Director Lisa Sumption: five protections for every volunteer, none for myself. She replies within a day that concerns will be reviewed “through the appropriate channels within the Department.” She never identifies the channel, the person, or the standard.
- November 15, 2025
- November 18, 2025
- November 20, 2025Katie Gauthier writes: “Below is an image of the response we provided to you on August 29, 2025.” Nothing had been sent to either address on the request. The response sat in a portal I had no access to, carrying estimates in the tens of thousands of dollars. I withdraw the request.
- November 25, 2025The records platform writes to me for the first time: request #25-42, closed. No message had ever come from that system, including on August 29 when the institution says it answered there. I write the same morning that I will ask CivicPlus to audit how my address entered it.
- December 7 — 8, 2025I send a final message to Director Sumption with the surveillance documentation and video. She closes the correspondence on December 8. The same day I register oprdvolunteerabuse.org with my last $7 and begin building this archive.
- December 10, 2025I write to the volunteer services lead, copying the park supervisor, the park manager, the program manager, and Director Sumption. The letter.
January — March 2026.
- January 16, 2026I serve formal notice on the program manager: written reversal of the expulsion, an independent investigation, and acknowledgment. Deadline: March 26, 2026, one year from the expulsion.
- February 9, 2026
- February 13 — 14, 2026Deputy Director J.R. Collier directs all correspondence away from named staff and writes that legal correspondence will go to Department of Justice counsel. I answer the same day, and on February 14 send the full declaration to Collier, every named individual, and Governor Kotek.
- Late February 2026I encounter the same man from March 18 on a Forest Service trail on my regular route. He is local. He drives a state vehicle with no agency markings. He has not returned. On March 2 I document the encounter to all named individuals, and on March 11 I send the final correspondence.
March 2026.
- March 3, 2026OPRD Emergency Manager Jamen Lee sends my letters to Captain Kyle Kennedy, OSP Government and Media Relations, copying Deputy Director J.R. Collier: “Fyi — sharing for situational awareness since he is now including the Governor as well as our Director.” No crime alleged, no threat quoted. The entire chain below was unknown to me until OSP produced the file on September 3, 2026.
- March 4, 2026The dispatch record reads “Capt. Kennedy is requesting that a threat assessment be conducted asap.” Kennedy forwards Lee's email to Lieutenant Haley McQuillan, Criminal Investigations Division: “Would you take a look at the info below?”
- March 6, 2026Lieutenant McQuillan routes it to Detective Jake Hyde, OSP Portland, a Task Force Officer with the Portland FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force: “some concerns in the Florence area.” Before noon, Hyde forwards my name from his FBI account to FBI personnel: “Name is Robert Samuel White out of Florence Oregon. But I don't have a DOB.” At 1:14 PM Hyde reports back: “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.” That afternoon Lee sends Hyde the dismissal letter, the Timeline of Events, and a February 2026 email chain, and offers more.
- March 10, 2026Hyde forwards the OPRD documents to Detective Jerred Nelson, Major Crimes Section: “FYI for the guy in Florence. Give me a call later this week and we can talk about heading down there.”
- March 11, 2026Dianne Greenlee, Criminal Intelligence Analyst at the Oregon TITAN Fusion Center, Oregon Department of Justice, writes to Hyde: “I'm documenting this activity for our internal awareness since Mr. White's actions border on harassment due to the volume of emails that he has forwarded to OPRD staff over the last year.” Hyde answers: “Yes, that is correct. Just OSP it is not an FBI case.” Her records sit in systems I cannot see or correct.
- March 13, 2026From his FBI account, Hyde sends Nelson my DMV record and a report: “WHITE,ROBERT SAMUEL DMV.pdf” and “ReportRobertWhite.pdf.”
- March 17 — 22, 2026Hyde works with Forest Service Special Agent Matthew Oliver to locate me. On March 22 Oliver delivers the reconnaissance: my volunteer schedule, my duties, my RV and Jeep, two screenshots from the onX Hunt hunting application with a waypoint pinned on the work center where I live, the gate and its lock, and the note that my Forest Service supervisor “was told not to advise WHITE that FS LE was inquiring about his whereabouts.”
- March 23, 2026The eve of the anniversary of the dismissal. Launch of Autonomy Realms, a sovereign platform with Atlas mode, geotagged signals, and traces mapped to the exact ground where events occurred. The anniversary email goes out with a map screenshot showing signals linked to their park.
- March 23, 2026At 2:21 PM Detective Nelson opens the dispatch event naming me “Suspect”, with the basis: sending “concerning emails to former supervisors in parks department and publicly airing grievances.” At 2:33 PM he sends Sergeant Sean Henderson the “Hasty Plan for Robert White knock and talk.”
- March 24, 2026One year after the dismissal. Three men with guns arrive at a locked federal gate on federal land where I serve as a volunteer caretaker. They state they are concerned about what I am posting online. I decline to speak without an attorney and shut the door. I record them leaving. Twenty minutes later a man identifying himself as Forest Service calls and tells me this isn't going away. He is later confirmed as Special Agent Matthew Oliver, Law Enforcement & Investigations.
- March 27, 2026Three days after I was told at my door that I was not in trouble, Special Agent Oliver emails a Lane County deputy: my name, date of birth, driver's license number, residence, work schedule, duties, correspondence, and text messages, with the words “multiple veil threats” and a commitment to “keep you up to date.” The same day I file the Siuslaw National Forest incident report on the March 24 visit, with the license plate of one vehicle: 731 QRV.
- March 30, 2026Patrol Captain Felicia Sloan confirms Special Agent Oliver is employed by USFS Law Enforcement & Investigations and does not need to coordinate with local law enforcement. Asked who authorized the visit and its purpose, she directs me to FOIA.
April — June 2026.
- April 2, 2026I issue a litigation preservation notice to Oregon State Police and file a records request with OPRD. The April 10 estimate prices the volunteer program categories at forty to eighty hours each. I dispute it.
- April 3, 2026I file a public records request with Oregon State Police for all records related to the March 24 visit, including all coordination with Special Agent Oliver or any OPRD employee. OSP answers the same day: a search “identified no records responsive to your request.” The chaptered record is in the archive.
- April 3, 2026While walking the Waxmyrtle Trail in the Oregon Dunes, the displacement framework is named: one year after the first displacement, one week after the second, when they brought police to my door. The weapon that connects all nine stages of documented institutional conduct is identified, named, and recorded on the trail. The archive is restructured around it, and a resource page for volunteers gives the pattern a name for those still inside it.
- April 13, 2026Ten days after the “no records” answer, a CAD dispatch record for the March 24 visit is printed inside OSP's Central Records Section. The fee letter lists one located record, “CAD, $12.50,” and elsewhere recites the body camera statute over no named record. The CAD is then withheld for three months behind the fee. The same day I request a fee waiver and supplement it; on April 14 I answer the waiver form.
- April 15, 2026Two days after the fee waiver requests, Detective Nelson closes the threat assessment: “there is no evidence White has committed any crimes.” The file remains, “documented for information only.”
- May 4, 2026I send A Final Statement to the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department. Every actor named in sequence, and what each did. I close the chapter on my own terms.
- June 30, 2026A Lane County deputy jokes to my face about access to a high-powered rifle stored overnight at the work center. I turn my camera on, address it, and publish the video the same afternoon. On September 3 I learn the deputy's office had been holding Special Agent Oliver's March 27 email for three months.
July — August 2026.
- July 6, 2026The Department of Administrative Services closes my records request R000879, stating it “is not the custodian of the requested records,” and refers me to OPRD. The request sought the institution's own communications.
- July 14, 2026Oregon State Police release CAD record SP26097765. No call type, priority low, officer initiated, no action taken; criminal unit; role “Other”; comment “FOR THE FOREST SERVICE // FOLLOWUP INTERVIEW W/ ROBERT WHITE”; primary unit Trooper Jake Hyde. The same day I send six questions to the responding unit's supervisor.
- July 21, 2026The four named staff are identified by role rather than by name throughout the archive. The reasoning, stated publicly.
- July 22, 2026Petition for Public Records Order filed with the Oregon Attorney General under ORS 192.411, concerning PR27478 and CAD event SP26097765. The petition and twenty-five exhibits published in full.
- July 24, 2026The District Ranger, U.S. Forest Service, writes that the Forest Service did not initiate the March 24 interview and only unlocked the gate for OSP, which “does not have keys to Forest Service gates.” Filed with the Attorney General the same day.
- July 27, 2026Oregon State Police reopens PR27478, citing a “thorough review” that found “additional records, not in our system at the time of the original request.” Everything later produced had been in its systems since March and April. The same day the Department of Administrative Services answers R000885: thirty-one requests closed on a not-the-custodian basis since 2024, with no written standard for the determination.
- July 29, 2026The Attorney General order, DOJ File No. 257001-GA0140-26, decides the petition on an exemption claim Oregon State Police never made to me, and calls the remainder moot. The same day I request the recorded video of the March 24 contact.
- July 30, 2026Holly Bolton, OSP, answers the order by providing the fee letter as the exemption assertion. David Pitcher, Department of Justice, identifies page 20 of my own exhibits as the source of the exemption reference. I answer with the checklist with one item and a records request on the fee letter itself, acknowledged as PR36445.
- August 4, 2026The Attorney General order, DOJ File No. 107062-GA0144-26, denies the petition on R000879. The order states a response is complete when a public body notifies the requester that it is not the custodian of the records requested.
- August 11, 2026Micah Hubbard, OSP Central Records, identifies the PR27478 records and names a fee. The same day he prices PR36445, the request about the fee letter itself, at $16,315: approximately 27,000 letters, 650 hours, release 130 weeks after payment.
- August 14 — 29, 2026
September 2026.
- September 1, 2026Chelsea Bradley, OSP Risk, confirms preservation of the records, except item seven, which she calls beyond the scope of the process. I answer that item seven is a record. She forwards it to the CJIS team.
- September 3, 2026Micah Hubbard produces the PR27478 file. I publish it in full the same day: the first sight of the March 3 email, the “asap” order, the task force distribution, the March 11 Department of Justice characterization, the “Suspect” dispatch event, and the “Hasty Plan.” The same day I state the production is not sufficient, serve formal notice of tort claim, and write to the Governor: your office was the reason.
- September 4, 2026
- September 5 — 7, 2026I file a records request with the Office of the Governor and one with OPRD for the Director's and Deputy Director's records, write to OPRD that the record says you lied, and send the Director The choices are still yours; the final version goes on September 7: tell the truth, withdraw the bar, build a real process. I also write to the emergency manager and Captain Kennedy about what each set in motion.
- September 8, 2026
- September 9 — 11, 2026Patrol Captain Sloan confirms the referral of my complaint is an administrative investigation. I notify all records officers that the requests are now tracked publicly, correct the record on Special Agent Oliver's March 27 email, send OSP Report SP26096984, and what all of you have been doing, and on September 11 publish sunlight: OPRD's Timeline of Events answered claim by claim.
- September 18, 2026Katie Gauthier prices the September 5 request for the Director's and Deputy Director's records at $1,728, and the “Timeline of Events” version histories at $80. Under OAR 736-001-0030 the fee waiver decision belongs to the Director, the subject of the request. I dispute both estimates; neither will be paid, send the same letter as a PDF, and then say plainly what I had softened.
- September 20, 2026I serve OPRD notice of conclusion of direct correspondence, and ask Dianne Greenlee what exactly she documented about me, where it is maintained, and who received it.
- September 22, 2026The Governor's office estimates $572.50 for its records and denies the fee waiver, writing that I have “not demonstrated the ability to disseminate the public records but merely stated that he can post it on a website.” My answer, two minutes later, in full: “I will pay it. Send the instructions.” I also tell Greenlee a response is expected.
- September 23, 2026The March 13 transfer goes to Senator Wyden's whistleblower intake, the FBI, and the Department of Justice Inspector General, with every named officer copied. I file the complaint with the Inspector General, then the complaint to the FBI's Portland field office naming Task Force Officer Jake Hyde. I file a records request with the Oregon Department of Justice, nine categories, from the fusion center to counsel's files, and ask the Joint Committee on Legislative Audits to recommend an audit of OPRD volunteer-program controls. I write to the Governor's attorney: you named a price, and I accepted it. Lane County prices two items of request #26-825 at $71.91, denies the fee waiver in one sentence, and closes the request four minutes later. I demand it reopen.
- September 24, 2026The payment instructions arrive. I had already petitioned the Attorney General that morning on the waiver denial and the withheld instructions. The office acknowledges the petition, then refuses to decide it: ORS 192.427 turns on an elected official claiming the right to withhold a record, no record was withheld, and the Governor claimed nothing. I ask for reconsideration. That night I write to Oregon State Police that what they withheld is where the characterizations live. The same afternoon the Department of Justice calls my request for my own records “very broad in scope”; I ask which of the nine categories carry the burden.
- September 25, 2026The statute provides no mechanism for reconsideration, so I file a second petition on the fee waiver: custody is not the test.
- September 26 and 27, 2026Three letters in two days. To all four agencies at once, Follow the Statute. One section per agency, each built from that agency's own documents. To Captain Kyle Kennedy, OSP Government and Media Relations, copying Superintendent Casey Codding, You converted a link into a threat assessment. “A problem about how a state agency looks arrived at your desk, and it left your desk as a criminal file on a citizen.” To ten Oregon State Police addresses, the statute itself: ORS 181A.250, which bars a police file on what a citizen writes and who he writes to, without grounds to suspect a crime.
- September 28, 2026Oregon State Police answers: exemptions cited for the withheld documents. My reply, with sincere thanks for her time and effort: “We have both stated our positions at this point and that is where I will leave the matter for now.”
- October 1, 2026Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Gutman throws it out under ORS 192.427. The law allows him to do that only when someone has been denied a record. No one denied me anything. I answer: “Citing the section to a petition where nothing was withheld is not an application of the statute. It is cover for an event that never happened.”
- October 8, 2026To the Legislature, copying the Governor, the Attorney General, and the state's public records oversight, Oregon's Public Records Law, As Applied: seven gaps in how the law is applied, each shown in this record, with the change asked for each. The same day I ask the Public Records Advocate for facilitated dispute resolution of the fee waiver, ask the Public Records Advisory Council to consider the Attorney General's application of ORS 192.427, and ask the Attorney General's office why its October 1 order is not in the public records order collection. To Captain Kyle Kennedy, copying Superintendent Casey Codding, A Statement About Record Keeping.