May 12 2021
The Portland City Commissioner said the audit of the embattled bureau should be released before Thursday's vote on next year's budget.
Portland Commissioner Mingus Mapps is calling on the city to release the contested third-party audit of the Office of Community & Civic Life before the Thursday, May 13, vote on next year's budget.
Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt ordered Portland officials to release the audit of the embattled bureau on Tuesday, May 11. Schmidt said the office was not exempt from disclosure because of attorney-client privilege as the Portland City Attorney's Office had claimed. A former office employee and three news organizations had appealed the denial of their public records requests to Schmidt's office. One of them was Oregon Public Broadcasting, which has reported extensively on the bureau's problems.