Over at Blogtown, Matt Davis reports that a media "conglomerate" including WWeek and the O has hired an attorney to force the city to release records in the Chasse case:
[The] conglomerate ... is understood to have hired an attorney, Duane Bosworth, of the international law firm Davis Wright Tremaine, to argue that Federal Court should force the City of Portland to release information publicly about the disciplinary records of the Portland Police Bureau Officers and Sheriff’s Deputy involved in the controversial death in custody of James Philip Chasse last September. [Matt, take a breath now and then, eh!] ...
Yesterday, Bosworth, whose services are extremely expensive, filed a motion to intervene in the case, on behalf of the local media conglomerate--arguing that the disciplinary records of the officers are not only crucial to the Chasse family’s case against the city and county ... but that the public, too, has a right to know about these things.
Steenson wants personnel, phone and medical records for the officers involved along with other information about the incident.
What about Bernie?