May 21st, 2025

• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Video
• Draft Minutes for Meeting on January 15, 2025
• Education Information Exemption Summaries
• Draft Comments from Legislative Review Subcommittee

March 19th, 2025

• Rescheduled

March 14th, 2025 – Legislation Review Subcommittee

•  Subcommittee Meeting Agenda 
•  Subcommittee Meeting Draft Comments 

March 7th, 2025 – Legislation Review Subcommittee

• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Video »

January 15th, 2025

• Meeting Agenda
  1. Opening of the meeting
  2. Review/approve minutes from last meeting
  3. Discussion with Ms. Mortimer and judicial fitness and misconduct records
  4. Senate Bill 890 discussion
  5. Process during the current legislative session
  6. Discussion about Committee Vacancies
  7. Other non-listed items if necessary
• Meeting Video »
• Meeting Minutes

November 20th, 2024

• Meeting Agenda
  1. Call to Order
  2. Approval of the minutes from Sept. 18, 2024
  3. Report from the Subcommittee
  4. Discussion of Juvenile Records
  5. Discussion of Disability Records
  6. Draft Legislative Concept 1281
  7. Legislative Concept 1281 Bill Back
  8. Subcommittee- Background Check Exemptions
  9. Next meeting date and future topics.
• Meeting Video »
• Meeting Minutes

October 31, 2024 – Special Projects Subcommittee

• Subcommittee Meeting Notice
• Subcommittee Meeting Agenda

September 18, 2024

• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Notice
• Draft Minutes for Meeting on July 17, 2024
• Meeting Video »
• Meeting Minutes

July 17, 2024

• Meeting Agenda
  1. Call to Order – Roll Call
  2. Review and approve minutes from prior meeting
  3. Discuss Exemptions Relating to Background Check Information
  4. Discuss Bi-annual report and preparations for next report
  5. Possible Legislative Changes for the Sunshine Committee (extending time, different reporting structure)
  6. Discuss Next Exemptions for Review,
  7. Discuss future meeting locations and dates
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »

May 22nd, 2024

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Video »
• Meeting Minutes
• Draft Minutes for Meeting on March 20, 2024
• Notes on May 9, 2024 Meeting
• Draft Report to the Legislative Subcommittee (05-18-2024)
• Summary of LE Misconduct Reporting Statutes

May 9, 2024 – Special Projects Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Video »

March 20, 2024

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Video »
• Meeting Minutes
• LE Misconduct Exemptions Recommendation (as adopted)
• Legislation Review Subcommittee Report on recently passed legislation:
  • SB1576; SB1596; HB4002; HB4081; HB4031; HB4149

March 15, 2024 – Special Projects Subcommittee

• Meeting Video »
• Prior Meeting Video for Reference – starts at about 47:45 and runs to about 5 minutes.
• Meeting Materials
• Patterson Complaint
• Scherer comment Sunshine Committee

January 17, 2024

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Regulated Healthcare Profession Exemptions – Health Licensing Office Complaints & Investigations
• Regulated Healthcare Profession Exemptions – Health Professional Regulatory Boards (chart corrected)
• State Comparison of Teacher Misconduct Exemptions

January 12, 2024 – Special Projects Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Regulated Healthcare Profession Exemption Summaries

November 8, 2023

• Meeting Notice
• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Combined Exemption Spreadsheet (6.23)

November 3, 2023 – Special Projects Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Video »
• Regulated Healthcare Profession Exemption Summaries

September 13, 2023

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Nik Chourey Presentation Summary
• Combined Exemption Spreadsheet
• Regulated Healthcare Profession Exemption Summaries

July 26, 2023

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Video »
• Regulated Healthcare Profession Exemption Summaries
• Subcommittee Recommendations – Regulated Professions (non-healthcare)

July 13, 2023 – Special Projects Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda – Review and approve subcommittee’s recommendations regarding public records exemptions pertaining to various regulated professions (non-healthcare).
• Meeting Video »

June 14, 2023 – Special Projects Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda – Meeting of the Special Projects Subcommittee to discuss various licensing-related exemptions.
• Meeting Video »
• Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC) Testimony

May 17, 2023

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• DPSST Sunshine Committee Research
• Legislative Subcommittee Recommendations

April 5, 2023 – Legislation Review Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Video »
• Final Legislative Subcommittee Recommendations
• Draft Legislative Subcommittee Recommendations

March 29, 2023 – Legislation Review Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Video »

March 15, 2023

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Regulated Professions (Non-Healthcare) Exemption Summaries
• Subcommittee Recommendations
• Jack Orchard Comments
• OPB Testimony

March 3, 2023 – Special Projects Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Video »
• Health and Criminal Investigatory Exemptions
• Subcommittee Draft Recommendations

February 1, 2023 – Special Projects Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Video »

January 18, 2023

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »

November 30, 2022 – Special Projects Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Video »
• Subcommittee Work – Message from Charlie Fisher
• In Favor of a Balancing Test to Require Release of Information Exempted From Disclosure Under Oregon Health Information Laws

October 19, 2022

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Civil and Regulatory Investigation Exemption Summaries
• Law Enforcement Exemption Summaries
• In Favor of a Balancing Test to Require Release of Information Exempted From Disclosure Under Oregon Health Information Laws
• The Investigatory Exemption Thoughts

August 24, 2022

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Oregon Health Information Laws as contrasted with HIPAA and/or other federal protections
• Oregon Health and Science University v Oregonian Publishing Company LLC
• Journalist survey

June 15, 2022

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Childress Letter
• Family Information Exemption Recommendations
• Health Information Exemption Summaries
• PHI Exemption Summaries for 1-20

May 18, 2022 – Special Projects Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Family Information Exemption Summaries

March 16, 2022

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Family Information Exemption Summaries
• Recommendations Regarding Pending Legislation
• Recommendations Regarding Trade Secrets

March 1, 2022 – Special Projects Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Draft Recommendations for Trade Secrets
• Recommendations Regarding Pending Legislation

February 16, 2022 – Special Projects Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Public Records Order 21-62
• SB 1567 (2022)
• HB 4092 (2022)
• SB 1576 (2022)
• Notice of Rulemaking and Request for Input Letter

January 19, 2022

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Chevron v. DEQ Ruling and Judgment (2019)
• SBTech v. Lottery Ruling and Judgment (2020)
• Trade Secrets Primer

November 17, 2021

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Video »
• ORS 192
• Draft Report to Legislative Subcommittee – July 1, 2020
• Report to Legislative Subcommittee – July 1, 2018

September 22, 2021

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Draft Report to Legislative Subcommittee
• 2011 Proposed Re-organization of Public Records Exemptions
• SPJ Comments

February 10, 2020

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Legislative Review Recommendations

February 3, 2020 – Legislative Review Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda

January 29, 2020

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Exemption Summaries

November 25, 2019

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Bulk Data Recommendations
• ONPA Comments
• SPJ Comments

November 4, 2019

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Bulk Data Recommendations
• PRAC – Proposed Legislation on Independence
• SEIU 503 Letter to Sunshine Committee

October 14, 2019 – Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Exemption Catalog – BH (PDF | XLSX)
• Exemption Catalog – MBH (PDF | XLSX)
• Exemption Catalog – MK (PDF | XLSX)

October 10, 2019 – Standing Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Bulk Data Recommendations
• SPJ Comments

October 3, 2019 – Standing Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Reference Materials

September 25, 2019

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• SPJ Comments

August 19, 2019 – Legislation Review Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda

July 17, 2019

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Family Information Exemption Summaries
• Signing Letter

June 12, 2019 – Standing Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda

May 15, 2019

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• April 17 Legislative Review Committee Recommendations
• March 20 Recommendation on PII to Sunshine Committee
  • Revised PII Subcommittee Recommendation – Exemptions
  • Revised PII Subcommittee Recommendation – Other Issues
• March 20 Exemption Summaries
  • Draft Recommendation regarding Personal Financial Exemptions

April 25, 2019 – New Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda

April 17, 2019 – Legislative Review Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Legislative Review Committee Recommendations
• Bills That Affect Public Records and Government Disclosure Laws
• Draft Recommendations

April 11, 2019 – Legislative Review Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda

March 20, 2019

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Exemption Summaries
• Recommendation on PII to Sunshine Committee
• SPJ Comments

March 15, 2019 – PII Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Deckelmann PII Recommendations
• Eakins PII Recommendations
• Walth PII Recomendations
• Draft Recommendation on PII to Sunshine Committee

February 22, 2019 – PII Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• PII Subcommittee Tasker

February 1, 2019 – PII Subcommittee

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Video »

January 23, 2019

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Report from Public Records Advocate
• Privacy – Proposed Decision Points
• Privacy – REVISED Proposed Decision Points
• Member Recommendations
• Public Comments
• Subcommittee Questions

November 21, 2018

• Meeting Cancelled

October 3, 2018

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Updated Public Records Exemption Summaries
• Written Testimony

July 18, 2018

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Sunshine Committee Criteria – Brent Walth Comments
• Oregon Sunshine Committee Report to Legislative Subcommittee
• Personal Contact Information Exemptions – Draft Proposal
  • Avery Horton Comments
  • Patrick Beck Comments
  • Heidi Morin Comments
  • Eileen Eakins Comments

May 16, 2018

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• Draft Report to Legislature
• Draft Exemption Criteria Questionnaire
• Proposed Exemption Review Criteria
• Exemptions for Review
• Exemption Summaries
• Public Comments

March 21, 2018

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »
• MK Report on Organizing Exemption Review – March 7, 2018
  • Economic Affairs Exemptions
  • Exemptions with Court Cases and AG Orders
  • Public Safety Exemptions
• Exemption Subcategories and Count – March 16, 2018

January 31, 2018

• Meeting Notice/Agenda
• Meeting Minutes
• Meeting Video »