Greetings again, Chief of
Police:
Please see Page 1 of this report
in The Roseburg Beacon:
"... rather than have one
county office such as the Sheriff's Department or D.A.'s office
investigate another county department."
It was never explained to me why
the Sheriff's Department should NOT
investigate another county
department, particularly when probable cause
of felony crimes has been discovered and duly
reported to the County Sheriffs.
One of the Sheriff's primary responsibilities
is the maintenance of security
in the Douglas County Courthouse and adjacent
administrative offices.
After transmitting numerous
email messages to Sergeant Brad O'Dell,
we have never once
received any reply(s) nor any courteous acknowledgments:
We have also attempted to notify
numerous Oregon State government officials;
but, the only responses we
received were from the Public Records Advocate
and from the Oregon Department of Revenue.
Both correctly identified the County Clerk
as the designated legal custodian of the required NOTICEs
OF BUDGET HEARING.
The Oregon Department of Justice
has fallen conspicuously silent.
We do not believe we were ever
being unreasonable to expect some sort of
reply and/or a simple
"thanks" from Sheriff Hanlin, after we
did all the work
required to research and prepare
the following MEMO:
If we had committed any serious
error(s) in the latter MEMO,
it certainly would have been
timely and appropriate for
the Sheriffs to point out any such error.
Their silence is one way of
saying, or implying, "No objections."
Assuming the above quote from The
Roseburg Beacon is close to the truth,
and in light of the total lack
of any reply(s) or response(s) from anyone
employed by the Douglas County Sheriffs Department, I now believe that
our investigation of
the "missing millions" now justifies an official
investigation by the Roseburg Police Department.
The Oregon Revised Statutes
define forgery of a "public record"
Those Oregon State laws now
authorize you to commence
and proceed with a formal criminal investigation.
The current Douglas County Clerk
should be interrogated, and
the legal notice staff at The
News-Review should be questioned
concerning the PAST DUE Public
Records Request.
The County D.A. has a legal
obligation to enforce an
overdue Public Records
Request, but he has also
I do not know, as a matter of
law, if The News-Review is
subject to any legal obligation
to retain electronic copies
of legal notices, which they are
required to publish
in printed versions of that newspaper.
I do believe the Douglas County
Clerk is subject to
records retention practices imposed by Oregon laws.
If the requested records have
been destroyed,
the Roseburg Police Department
will most
surely need to know that!
If your office needs me to
execute a formal COMPLAINT,
please advise, preferably with a blank form in .pdf format.
Thank you, again, for your
professional consideration.
--
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
Private Attorney General, Civil RICO: 18 U.S.C. 1964;
Agent of the
United States as Qui Tam Relator (4X),
Federal Civil
False Claims Act: 31 U.S.C. 3729 et seq.
