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On July 30, 2025, local, state, and federal law enforcement executed 11 search warrant raids on cannabis farms and locations related to these farms across Southern Oregon, according to records obtained by Information for Public Use. Seventeen workers from the raids were arrested by ICE and brought to the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma,
Nearly a dozen law enforcement agencies surveilled Indigenous communities opposing the creation of the Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada, according to hundreds of pages of public records we obtained and shared with investigative journalism outlet ProPublica. Reporter Mark Olalde detailed the surveillance in a July 2025 article published by ProPublica: “Law enforcement agencies,
Whit Industries — an Oregon business with substantial links to the Neo-Nazi group White Lives Matter — has received over $320,000 in public contracts from the Port and other public bodies in Coos County, Oregon. This is approximately one hundred thousand more than previously reported. Our records reveal that the Port of Coos Bay has
On September 16, 2024, antifascist researchers identified Michael “Whit” Gantenbein of Coos Bay, Oregon as a leader of the white supremacist group White Lives Matter. Gantenbein is the owner of Whit Industries, a hydraulics and boat company based on Oregon’s South Coast. Corvallis Antifa revealed that “much of Whit Industries’ income comes from government contracts.”
On June 26, Street Roots, an independent news publication in Oregon, published a story showing that a legal loophole is allowing ex-law enforcement officers who have received a lifetime ban from Oregon’s public safety agency to search, cite and arrest people on and around university campuses. The basis of this reporting came from public records
In 2020, Oregon voters passed Measure 109 establishing the Oregon Psilocybin Services (OPS). Through OPS, individuals may ingest psilocybin — the active ingredient in psychedelic “magic mushrooms” — in state-sanctioned facilities. The following document, which was obtained from the Oregon Health Authority via public records request, details the coordinated advocacy of numerous state-licensed psilocybin facilitators
On November 8, national investigative news outlet The Intercept broke the news that police in Medford, Oregon have been continuously spying on progressive activists and organizations since 2016. The basis of this reporting came from public records obtained by Information for Public Use. This illegal surveillance of First Amendment activities has included monitoring protestors calling
Information for Public Use obtained emails showing the police chief, top city staff, and nonprofit executives in Medford, Oregon attempted to prevent $1.5 million of state money from being awarded to Stabbin’ Wagon, a local harm reduction nonprofit critical of the law enforcement. Enter your email below to get stories like this your inbox. Stabbin’
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