Governor Kate Brown promised to restore transparency to Oregon government, but as soon as she took office, Brown signed off a plan to make it even more difficult for the public to access government documents. One state agency is being sued for demanding a $50,000 ransom in exchange for providing public records about building a new psychiatric hospital in Wilsonville.
Despite claiming to defend Oregon's public records laws, Governor Brown failed to report $165,000 in lobbying costs in "flagrant violations of Oregon’s lobbyist disclosure laws" - paid for by taxpayer dollars.
After a report revealed 8,000 complaints of physical and sexual abuse in senior care facilities were intentionally hidden from the public by DHS, Gov. Brown’s appointed officials whined that they weren’t appreciated for “never charging a fee” to newspapers who…
Governor Brown’s Administration crafted a public relations plan to discredit FamilyCare by planting negative stories about the low-income health care provider.
What does Governor Brown do when her administration doesn’t want to hand over public records? She defends a months-long runaround while the Legislature exempted the very same records the Department of Human Services was trying to hide.
Despite promising transparency and the “timely release of documents” when she took office, Governor Brown took a page out of Governor Kitzhaber’s book when her office deleted the opinions of state recruiters, paid $65,000 to recommend a DEQ Director, before…