On Wednesday, Kent Vander Kamp, a sergeant with the Deschutes County Sheriff’s Office and one of two candidates running for Sheriff this year, filed a motion for a temporary restraining order against Deschutes County, DCSO, Sheriff Shane Nelson, Undersheriff Paul Garrison, Oregon Public Broadcasting and OPB reporter Emily Cureton Cook to stop the public release of his personnel records from his time as a reserve officer at La Mesa Police Department in Southern California from 1995 to 1997. However, within the complaint filed Wednesday morning, an email submitted from Undersheriff Paul Garrison to Vander Kamp and his attorney, Andrew Mittendorf, on October 2 contained live links to seven documents — the entirety of the La Mesa personnel records release, according to the email…
A last-ditch effort to keep personnel records of Vander Kamp’s time at La Mesa Police Department in the mid-‘90s private inadvertently exposed records to the public
