How to show up in Deschutes County
Surveillance is approved by people who hold public meetings any resident can attend. This page lists the bodies that do that in Deschutes County, what we have confirmed about attending each one, and where each publishes its agendas.
We do not publish meeting dates. A schedule we cannot check often enough would eventually send someone to the wrong place on the wrong night. Each body below links to wherever it publishes its own agendas and schedule, and that is the copy to trust.
Bodies in this county
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Deschutes County Audit Committee
Watch this oneThis committee authorised the audit that examined the Sheriff's body camera program, by putting it in the Internal Audit Work Plan. That is the leverage point: what goes into the work plan is what gets examined, and the work plan is set here. It is also where a management response to an audit finding would be received, so whether the Sheriff's Office acted on the December 2025 recommendations should surface at this table before anywhere else.
- When
- We did not establish a fixed schedule for this body from the records we read. Its minutes are published by year, and the years run from 2003 to 2023.
- Where
- Not established from the records we read.
- Remote
- Not established from the records we read.
- Public comment
- Not established from the records we read.
- Written comment
- — not confirmed
The committee's minutes and the internal audit reports it commissions are published in the county's Laserfiche records repository rather than on a meeting portal. Both are open and readable. Note that the county's Board of Commissioners publishes somewhere else entirely, and that portal asks automated readers to wait sixty seconds between requests, so it is slow to read in bulk even though it is open.
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What this list does not cover yet
These are the bodies we have confirmed, not every body in the county. Deschutes County has other commissions and committees, and other school and special districts, that we have not documented yet. Several of the county's own committees publish on the same county portal linked above.
Before you go, and after
Civic action
Read what is already on the record for Deschutes County first. A resident who has read the contract changes the room.
What is documented in Deschutes County →Personal protection
Knowing which systems operate near you also tells you where your own choices still matter.
EFF Surveillance Self-Defense ↗