Brad Cain
Associated Press Writer
SALEM, Ore. (AP)–Passed at the height of the Watergate scandal, Oregon’s 1973 public records law was designed to rebuild people’s confidence in government by allowing unfettered public access to government documents.
But in the past 30 years, Oregon legislators have chipped away at the law by approving more than 300 individual exemptions that put records out of the reach of the public.
Open records advocates say those exemptions have undermined…