Oregon Legal Research Blog…questions. How Do I Find a Notary Public? The Oregon Secretary of State has a list of active notaries here, but there is no search function and it is basically…
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Help! I Need to Get a Document Notarized!
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Oregon 2013-14 Blue Book Cover Photo Contest
Jack Ohman wants to kickstart the Oregon Secretary of State’s Blue Book Cover Photo Contest (and don’t we all follow the journey of OR7, the wolf formerly known as…
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Proposed Oregon Medical Marijuana Policy and Legislation
Legislators don’t draft statutes, which should be a surprise to no one. (Have you ever tried to read your state or federal statutes?! Just as bad, try reading the…
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Oregon Ballot Measure Archive Project: Update
…report of late has more to do with the movement of the collection into a permanent repository. Portland State University’s Special Collections has formally adopted BMAP and has been working…
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Have you Ever Read Oregon Measure 5 or Measure 11?
…the Secretary of State’s website. However, as of today, the Secretary of State’s State Initiative, Referendum and Referral database goes back only to 1998 and their voter pamphlet database goes…
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Construction Contractors Board: Let the Consumer Beware
…still carry the burden to protect themselves. An investigation by The Oregonian in 2005 revealed that weak state laws and passive enforcement by the state Construction Contractors Board have allowed…
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Is the online ORS (Oregon Revised Statutes) official, authentic, and permanent?
Are any state’s digital laws official, authentic, and permanent? “The alarming truth, borne out by our careful study, is that online official legal resources are replacing print official sources.Final…
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The Secret Life of Oregon Legislative History
…visiting and calling the State Library, the State Law Library, historical societies, newspaper libraries, talking to legislative staff, etc., but the brave new world is with us, you know, those…
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Update to “Leaving Children Home Alone in Oregon”
…your children home alone, in fact they explicitly state the Oregon neglect law, but they offer the class to prepare children for emergency situations. You can register for the class…
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Criminal Records / Background Checks
…never committed a crime outside of a single county, in a single state, in the U.S. Even then, records migrate over time and it might be necessary to research print…