CONTROLLING PUBLIC RECORDS
To: County Counsel Jenny Morf
Legal Aide Officer Michelle Luckey
Cecilia Johnson, Director of Community Services
I am unable to make the public records requests that are due this week because on September 19 when you responded to part of the long delayed August 15 electronic public records requests you included no current inventory. The September 12, 2006 requests remain outstanding. They also included a request for a current inventory from which citizens' needs are identified. More...
USING PUBLIC RECORDS TO RETALIATE:UNETHCAL BEHAVIOR AND FEE GOUGING
To: County Counsel Morf
To: Legal Aide Officer Michelle Luckey
Multnomah County Government
Your control and use of limits on electronic public records access to punish and gouge is transparent. Time sensitive records requested on August 15 were produced September 21, long after any period of usefulness. This delay was compounded by the false claim that these records had already been produced. Your charge for this delayed material was $101.27, far more than the cost when I did my own inspection, and at least twice what retired legal Aide Officer Mantifel charged for a two day turn around. More...
A PARANOID STATE: MCAS, THE PENTAGON OR A POUND?
Prologue
Director of Multnomah County Animal Control Michael Oswald's government signature is his abuse of power. His only "negotiation" tool is force. Public criticisms of agency practices are viewed as crimes against the state: transgressions or threats to his "authority" and his power. More...
REQUEST FOR INVESTIGATION
Ms. Morf:
I counsel Robert Torresdal and Laura Frost, owners of young German Shepherd mix dog, Buster, killed at MCAS on August 24, despite the fact that the owners had met the agency's conditions well before Buster was killed on the 24; and despite the fact that county counsel and MCAS had been notified previous to his killing that a place had been found for Buster. Unfortunately their experience is not uncommon. More...
HIJACKING PUBLIC RECORDS: MULTNOMAH COUNTY, OREGON
To: Jenny Morf, Assistant County Attorney
Public Records Production: A Real Disaster, September 21, 2006
Ms. Morf:
Today we finally received the time sensitive public records requested on August 15 along with the bill and completely expired Quarantine notices and Notices of Infractions some produced after the hearings time has expired ( 30 days). This is the first time in 10 years,since you have taken control of records production, that these notices and other public records used to assist the public have been systematically delayed. More...
Byzantine public records production in Multnomah County
The Pentagon or the Pound? First Multnomah County Animal
Control (MCAC)
concealed public records, and then removed all public access.
" In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes an act of rebellion."
August 28, 2006
Jenny Morf, Assistant County Attorney
MCAS Public Records designee
Office of Multnomah County Attorney
501 SE Hawthorne, Suite 500
Portland, Oregon 97214
cc:
Robert
Babcock
cc: Officer Michelle Luckey
Fax: 503.988.3377
Public Records Requests
Ms. Morf:
I am forwarding public records requests for the week of August 28, 2006, necessarily circumscribed because public records requests made two weeks ago for August 15, 2006, have not been received. No Notices of Infraction or quarantine notices have been provided since August 7, three weeks ago. Since these have a very limited time usefulness, the likelihood most are expired is already high. Knowing as you do that these are time sensitive, you also know that these are of little use after the appeal time. I explain to citizens who are upset by this that you control the production schedule in this political matter. Delays mean that animals and citizens whom we could have helped and did in the past get no assistance now. We submit the requests, are charged high rates and get them when you feel like it. Christmas in July is fine for presents, not for time sensitive documents. More...
DOW HOKOANA INVESTIGATED AND FOUND HERSELF BLAMELESS OF NEGLIGENCE.
It is embarassing that someone whose job is to investigate animal abuse and neglect covers up this concern in her own agency with slick excuses. The time spent trying to locate the owners and "examining" a clearly acutely distressed dog should have been spent transporting him to a "real" veterinarian. Prompt intervention could have saved his life. You don't need a microchip to get veterinary help. Anyone, a volunteer, a local vet, could have been called. They just didn't care enough to act. More...
Update: Multnomah County Animal Services still intent on killing Clyde, the Van Vleet's family senior dog
Despite an initial statement by MCAS that they would possibly consider alternatives to killing Clyde, MCAS continues to insist that Clyde is now their dog, subject to their arbitrary will. MCAS has held Clyde for one month in solitary confinement while withholding information from the Van Vleet family that pro bono legal services were available. His fate remains uncertain. More...
To whom it may concern:
Ms. Van Vleet called back this afternoon stating that you advised her that she had missed the appeal time by one day and therefore you were killing her dog Clyde immediately. She was extraordinarily distraught. She is now calling legal counsel. I suggest you not kill Clyde as you stated to her that you were going to do, pending legal resolution of several concerns.
Ms. Van Vleet now is represented by legal counsel, Robert Babcock. This was confirmed by certified mail. This matter will also be brought up with the Multnomah County Commission on Monday. More...
Ms. Morf,
The charges you have repeated as an apparent reason for shutting down the agency's public record kiosk (installed only months ago at substantial expense) are completely meritless. In fact they are transparent falsehoods, clearly offered in retaliation for criticisms of the agency's appalling practices. Isn't it best to first establish their accuracy before shutting off access to public records? That is why retaliation comes instantly to mind as an investigation will prove these false. More...
Mr. Oswald:
You must be honest to the public about your death rates and why these are so high. And you are not. It has entirely to do with your mismanagement and your grotesque parody of temperament testing. It has frankly earned you a national reputation you did not want. I have sent your work out nationally for evaluation by experts. You should have ... but why bother when you think of yourself as Napoleon (not the pastry).
Since you have no real grounds to exclude me from the agency, you simply shut down the kiosk, had a tantrum: poor social judgment; failure to anticipate social/politcal consequences. More...
No doubt in retaliation for my comment on the "Employees only" on his
door,
public records have once again been interrupted. MCAS has removed the
public
records kiosk out of our concerns that records were not being provided
timely
(now they are not provided at all, that makes sense). The letter from
Jenny
Morf is a gem. It should be framed. It is so transparently
manipulative. They
also grumble about my behavior as if this had no bearing on the
decision to take
away the public kiosk. Since there is no merit to their complaints on a
different matter have instead have chosen the clever route of shutting
down the
kiosk. More...
To: County Counsel Jenny Morf
cc: Legal Aide Officer Michelle Luckey
Office of Multnomah County Attorney
501 S.E. Hawthorne, Suite 500
Portland, OR 97214
FAX: 503. 988.3377
I understand that Michael Oswald has removed the public records kiosk in response to concerns about "timeliness" ( so now they are really late) and considers "disruptive" my distribution of educational materials to persons I mail these to anyway and who always welcome these when provided ( I will be writing all of them about this new development). More...