City kept in close touch with DEA following fatal cyclist collision, records show

The city of Salem on April 28 released a redacted text message in which Skip Miller, a Salem deputy police chief, referred to an “official request for assistance” to the Keizer police. The city blacked out much of the text it disclosed a month later under Clarkson’s order.

Salem police coordinated more closely with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency than previously known to manage public information about its agent colliding with a cyclist, according to recently released records.

The Salem Police Department gave the federal agency an advance look at the first press release with details about the death of Marganne Allen as she rode her bicycle home along a Salem street on March 28. The city recently released the email, acknowledging that…

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