Records leak costs two UO staffers their jobs


The president’s office of the University of Oregon saw about 22,000 pages of records — some with confidential information — released to a professor before ensuring the release complied with the law.

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The president’s office of the University of Oregon saw about 22,000 pages of records — some with confidential information — released to a professor before ensuring the release complied with the law.

“The information was sent to a university professor, and we have already requested that the professor return the information and refrain from any public release of confidential information,” Coltrane wrote in his email. “To our knowledge, only one record has been shared externally at this point.” …

It’s unclear whether the professor who has the information is willing to return it. “We’ve made the initial outreach,” [university spokesman Tobin] Klinger said. “The ball is in the professor’s court.”

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