Oracle sues Gov. Kate Brown to get Kitzhaber email archive

Oracle America Inc. filed suit today in Oregon state court against Gov. Kate Brown in an effort to force the release of former Gov. John Kitzhaber’s emails. In a complaint filed in Marion County Circuit Court, Oracle asserts that Brown “has failed to provide a single public record from the state’s archive” of Kitzhaber’s two Gmail accounts in response to an April public records request. “Despite numerous commitments to greater transparency and public disclosure in government dealings,…