While looking online for a copy of the court order posted here yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised to find a “Public Records Reading Room” created and supported by Oregon’s Office of the Attorney General.

Like Hawaii, Oregon has joined in various lawsuits challenging policies of the Trump Administration that affects the state’s residents.

One of those cases, in which Oregon joined California in challenging the deployment of national guard troops to its cities, has drawn widespread public and media interest. The online reading room is Oregon’s response.

Oregon Department of Justice has received requests under the Oregon Public Records Law for exhibits in State of Oregon, et al. v. Trump, et al., No. 3:25-cv-01756-IM (D. Or.). To facilitate access to these records, Oregon DOJ will post to this website exhibits that are not exempt from disclosure (due to the Court’s orders requiring confidentiality of certain documents) on a rolling basis.

Arranged for easy public access are more than 13 gigabytes of court records in the case, including trial exhibits introduced by the states of Oregon and California, along with the City of Portland and the federal government. There are also more than 2.4 GB of videos introduced as exhibits by ICE, and redacted versions of our depositions filed in the case.

These can be downloaded in bulk via zip files, or by clicking the links for individual files in each category, which are then listed out to allow downloads of individual files of interest.

These exhibits would normally go unseen by the public, and are not typcally included in the federal court’s PACER public document retrieval system. And they’re made available here free of charge.

As a reporter, I try as much as possible to get back to source documents so that I’m not reliant on someone else’s interpretation of events. This kind of document collection is priceless.

For example, here’s a list of the first 50 State of Oregon trial exhibits (out of 91 total).

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It’s quite a public service. Hawaii’s Attorney General might consider following suit with key documents from its federal litigation with the Trump administration.