Did you know the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST) has a Criminal Justice Code of Ethics (PDF and webpage with other DPSST documents)?…
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Oregon Supreme Court: ORS 162.325: Hindrance of Prosecution and Juvenile Proceedings
…Supreme Court affirmed. The Court first concluded that ORS 162.325(1) applies to the hindrance of juvenile proceedings as well as criminal proceedings….” (Link to full case.) You can link to…
Prison Libraries: “A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer”
A Mediocre Criminal, but an Unmatched Jailhouse Lawyer, Adam Liptak, New York Times, February 8, 2010 ‘… Mr. [Shon] Hopwood spent much of that time in the prison law…
Possible Restoration of PACER Records
The Washington Post reports today that the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has a plan to restore online access to the PACER documents that were removed. Link…
Catch up with eCourt in Oregon
OJD’s Oregon eCourt Implementation News website will keep you posted on where and when eCourt is going live and on related news stories. It’s fun watching it grow…
Are You Being Sued? How to find out if a Lawsuit has been Filed (in Oregon and beyond)
…you look that up? 1) Here in the U.S., if you are searching state court records (rather than federal court records), you will generally look to a courthouse docket, database,…
Special Historical Research Collections in Oregon
…and transportation 2) The City of Portland Archives and Records Center is the official repository for records created by or for the City of Portland and its agencies….
Oregon Revised Statutes Copyright Dispute: May 9th Update
Selected recent postings on this dispute, about which I posted here. 1) From ADF Alliance Alert: Oregon threatens over statutes copyright? (with a link to this post at…
April 21st Update: Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) Copyright Dispute
If you want to follow this story, here are direct links and suggested searches: 1) Further discussion of this topic can be found at Jack Bog’s Blog, see…
Update: Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS) Copyright Dispute
The following represents my opinion, from my perspective as an Oregon public law librarian: My previous posts on this subject are here and here and here. I’ve been…
Oregon Legal Research Blog

