Oregon Media Insiders

You must be kidding. Our legislature is still befuddling the FOIA and Portland police even confiscate home video cameras inside the house, if in use to record their actions, when they enter. I thought I read somewhere in the Patriot Act, using cameras to observe police actions were now against the law. Remember Freedom...now it means your choice of bubble gum. Your article is well taken and I commend you for opening a very necessary discourse on having a Free Press. I remember quite well when press helicopters were warned away from a drug bust and an officer in a questionable shooting. The police were very indignant that possibly a bad shooting by one of their own could be exposed. If I remember right the alert to officers was the Marijuana aroma permeating from closed windows and doors. And I believe this became known as free press keepone block away..