Leaked University of Oregon letter warns professor to immediately return 22,000 pages

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University of Oregon officials warned a professor holding 22,000 pages of records that further disclosure of their contents would violate his responsibility as a faculty member, according to a UO letter obtained by The Oregonian/OregonLive.

Doug Blandy, UO senior vice provost for academic affairs, wrote to the unidentified professor Jan. 20, saying a zip drive released by university archivists Dec. 3 contained "confidential communications that are protected by the attorney-client privilege and for which the privilege has not been waived."

Blandy also wrote that the documents, which include emails to and from four former UO presidents, contained confidential student, faculty and staff records whose disclosure violated state and federal laws.

"You should immediately discontinue any review of the documents," Blandy wrote, "gather or retrieve any and all copies that you have made, remove any documents that you have posted on the Internet, and return the originals and all copies of the documents to the Dean of the Libraries, Adriene Lim, by 5 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 22 or sooner."