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Salem police provide limited communication records, don’t explain call or text messages between sergeant and Proud Boys supporter

Since May 2021 the police department has charged Discrepancy Report nearly $900 for multiple public records requests seeking all communication records between certain officers and far-right activists.

The agency released records from a period of seven months after a legal challenge but declined to use Verizon’s Privacy Dashboard, a service that allows clients to request a year’s worth of call records at no additional charge.

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Salem police describe communications with far-right activists, leave out call records

After charging nearly $500 for a public records request, police released an exchange of text messages between a sergeant and a Proud Boys activist.

The agency then sent Discrepancy Report a police report regarding its handling of a May 1 rally but failed to release call records between the sergeant and the activist that were requested repeatedly.