Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 192 § 192.422 — Petition form; procedure when petition received

Petition form; procedure when petition received. (1) A petition to the Attorney General or district attorney requesting the Attorney General or district attorney to order a public record to be made available for inspection or to be produced shall be in substantially the following form, or in a form containing the same information: ______________________________________________________________________________ ______ (Date) I (we), ____________ (name(s)), the undersigned, request the Attorney General (or District Attorney of ______ County) to order ______ (name of governmental body) and its employees to (make available for inspection) (produce a copy or copies of) the following records: 1. ____________________ (Name or description of record) 2. ____________________ (Name or description of record) I (we) asked to inspect and/or copy these records on ______ (date) at ______ (address). The request was denied by the following person(s): 1. ____________________ (Name of public officer or employee; title or position, if known) 2. ____________________ (Name of public officer or employee; title or position, if known) ______________________ (Signature(s)) ______________________________________________________________________________ This form should be delivered or mailed to the Attorney General’s office in Salem, or the district attorney’s office in the county courthouse. (2) Promptly upon receipt of such a petition, the Attorney General or district attorney shall notify the public body involved. The public body shall thereupon transmit the public record disclosure of which is sought, or a copy, to the Attorney General, together with a statement of its reasons for believing that the public record should not be disclosed. In an appropriate case, with the consent of the Attorney General, the public body may instead disclose the nature or substance of the public record to the Attorney General. [Formerly 192.470]