SALEM â It could soon get a lot harder to access public records from the Pendleton Unmanned Aerial Systems Range.
State Sen. Bill Hansell, R-Athena, has introduced a bill that would exempt the city of Pendleton from disclosing records produced by the test range if making them public âwould cause a competitive disadvantage to the test range or its users.â The exemption covers a broad range of records, âincluding but not limited to pricing, intellectual property and customer records.â
At a Feb. 11 Senate Committee on Labor and Business hearing, Pendleton City Manager Robb Corbett called passage of the bill âcrucialâ before introducing Steve Chrisman, the cityâs airport manager and economic development director.