Oregon Legal Research Blog

Published on: March 8, 2013

Not Online in Oregon: Attorney General’s Administrative Law Manual and other Legal Publications

By Holly

…get the Oregon Attorney General’s office to put their full Public Records and Meetings Manual online (and superseded editions are still not online); so the Model Rules may not appear online anytime…

Published on: October 25, 2005

By Laura Orr

…about you to law enforcement or other interested parties. Be afraid, be very afraid. But the librarian community can still be trusted, mostly. Your records are safe with us and…

Published on: November 2, 2007

Hitler Photograph Albums of Looted Art Discovered

By Laura Orr

beSpacific reports on a National Archives announcement: “Today at a National Archives press conference, Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States, Michael Kurtz, Assistant Archivist for Records Services and…

Published on: October 4, 2006

By Laura Orr

…the City Auditor’s office. There will be an open house at the Stanley Parr Archives & Records Center. This bodes well for online access to historical record….

Published on: August 9, 2011

Link Rot Update: Oregon Secretary of State and Legislative Archives

By Laura Orr

The Oregon Secretary of State updated their website not long ago and now the Archives webpages where you will find Legislative Records has a…

Published on: February 25, 2011

Fear of the Internet, Loss of Privacy, and Risky Behavior

By Laura Orr

…sell to the highest bidder or the most bidders. There are a lot (!) of “public” records investigative books and websites, but for a (relatively) straightforward librarian approach for the…

Published on: April 29, 2011

What and Where are the “Oregon Jail Standards?”

By Laura Orr

…the OSSA website. They are copyrighted. OSSA is not a government agency and is not required to comply with public records laws. Here are some citations to Oregon “jail”…

Published on: April 29, 2011

Chronology of Data Breaches

By Laura Orr

…/ Verizon Data Breach Report (from the Secret Service website ) 4) Wikipedia Data Breach article 5) Health records breaches and the law (HITECH…

Published on: June 20, 2011

Sign up for Emergency Notification (Oregon, selected counties)

By Laura Orr

…when the associated address will be impacted by an emergency…. The system is preprogrammed with published landline phone numbers from phone company records. However, unless you register additional or alternate…

Published on: July 14, 2011

Casualties of American Wars

By Laura Orr

…Research Military Records at the U.S. Archives American War Library CRS Report: American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics , 2/26/10 Info Please: America’s Wars…