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From: Phil ([email protected]) To: [email protected]; Date: Sun, August 15, 2010 8:29:35 PM Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Subject: NOTIFICATION TO RETRACT EMAIL RE: PHIL BROYLES

To John Barnett - Operations Manager And faculty of the School of Social Work Portland State University Phone: 503-725-5024 Fax: 503-725-5545 email: [email protected] cc: Michael Soto, Henry Lazenby, Wim Wiewel RE: email “Confidential: Please Contact Campus Public Safety for the Attached” and another email 02/23/2010 with the subject line “RE: Internal Safety Issues Policy Statement.” This letter is addressed to Portland State University Office of Public Safety, the School of Social Work Faculty and the Operations Manager of the School of Social Work John Barnett. I believe these emails were sent with good intentions by Mr. Barnett but were based on limited and incorrect information. In this email were instructions regarding how to respond when and if faculty observes me on the grounds of the PSU campus and the School of Social Work as well as outside the campus property. In that email was a picture of me along with a copy of the Internal Safety Issues Policy Statement and statements in the body which were suggestive that I am a potential threat to the health and safety of the members of the school of social work. This is simply not true. At this time I am unaware of any University or other Social Work School policy violations I have committed which would call for such extreme measures - or any measures at all. I have not been formally or informally notified by the Campus Security Office concerning my presence on any part of the University Campus. As far as I know I am allowed on any public campus property to conduct any personal or private business during regular business hours and I retain the right to come and go as I need, contact whomever I think necessary at the university or in the community without interference from any public or privately run police authority. Any interference with this movement could be considered a violation of my civil liberties and freedom of movement. The “actions” taken by myself are guaranteed in the Social Work School Grievance Policy on page 34 of the Social Work Student Handbook and under the authority of the Oregon State System of Higher Education and Portland State University for Student Conduct and Responsibility ORS 577-031-0143. As the Executive Director of local nonprofit social services agency providing services to domestic violence offenders my primary concern is for the physical safety of their survivors. My reputation is crucial to the survival of the organization and its clinical services. If any erroneous allegations of the sort suggested or insinuated in the email were to be disseminated in the community it could potentially put the survivors and current partners of the program clients at risk for violence and disrupt the goals and changes participants in the program have made already. Any interference with the communication I have with faculty members regarding any shared clients is confidential and subject to Federal HIPPA and 42CFR laws. Interference with any communications could be detrimental to the clients we serve. I take campus safety, especially the safety of women, children and people who are vulnerable very seriously and understand the concerns and responses of faculty who may not have been privy to the facts of this situation. I will in no way hold the entire faculty accountable for the actions of a few professors and staff that are using the system to assert their own agenda. Please take immediate steps to mitigate the damages done to my reputation by retracting these emails to all the staff of the school of social work, the campus public safety office and anyone else who has received it. Please do not use the school and University resources to limit my movement in this community or silence any faculty member of the school of social work. Sincerely, Phillip Broyles

8/15/2010 8:32 PM