Oregon public records law grants each person the right to inspect the records of a public body (unless exempt from disclosure).
To request records from the City or Police Department, please review our following Records Request policy below.
Records request form must be completed in order to process. Requests for POLICE records must be submitted along with a $15 fee. Please be aware: This fee is non-refundable and applies even if the requested records are not available. These completed forms can be mailed or dropped off at City Hall at 191 East Main Street, Carlton OR 97111. They may also be emailed to the City Recorder at aamerson [at] ci.carlton.or.us (aamerson[at]ci[dot]carlton[dot]or[dot]us). Submissions in these forms will be processed following our normal process. The city cannot guarantee the records request will be completed in any other form of submission.
All records requests will be acknowledged within 5 business days, as dictated by Oregon public records law. If the records requested take City Hall or Police staff less than 30 minutes to collect, no additional charge will be assessed. If a request is estimated to take more than 30 minutes to complete, the requestor will be provided with a quote of the time and cost needed to accommodate the request. The estimated cost must be paid before staff can move forward with the request. In the event the request takes longer to complete than originally estimated, staff will notify the requestor to either verify that the requestor will accept the records already collected or will pay an additional fee to complete the request.
To view the full records request policy, please see the Resolution No. 2017-256 below. Please note the fee schedule has been updated and can be found in the Master Fee Schedule on the Finance Page.