DA orders Portland to release controversial bureau audit May 11 2021 The City Attorney's Office had refused to release the third-party audit of the Office of Community & Civic Life. The Multnomah County District Attorney has ordered Portland officials to release a third-party audit of an embattled bureau. District Attorney Mike Schmidt said the audit of the Office of Community & Civic Life was not exempt from disclosure as the Portland City Attorney's Office had claimed. In a Tuesday, May 11 ruling released late in the day, Schmidt said the city had not proven its claim the audit was protected by attorney-client privilege. "The City has not met its burden of showing that the primary purpose, or even a substantial purpose, of this document is the facilitation of legal services. All indicators show it to be business, management, personnel, and public relations advice intended to guide the transformation of a struggling office. Such advice, and the fact finding underlying it, is not exempt from disclosure regardless of what label is placed on it," Schmidt wrote.