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Salem Police Department (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)

EDITOR’S COLUMN: Public interest in honest government not served by misconduct secrecy

By Les Zaitz - Salem Reporter
August 29, 2022

EDITOR'S COLUMN: Salem Reporter has spent weeks seeking to answers for the public as to why a top police official was able to retire with an unearned $53,500. But Marion County's district attorney recently sided with the city in keeping that information secret, while staying silent on an apparent conflict of interest.