City Recorder FAQs

The City of Wilsonville is located in the Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue (TVF&R) District. TVF&R provides fire protection and emergency medical services to a 390-square-mile service area including the City of Wilsonville. Therefore, if the records you are requesting exist TVF&R would be the agency to contact for those records. Below is their contact information:

TVF&R Command & Business Operations Center

Phone: 503-259-1148

Email: records@tvfr.com

Address: 11945 SW 70th Avenue, Tigard, OR 97223

The ORS 192.318 requires a custodian of public records to provide proper and reasonable opportunities for inspection and examination of the records in the office of the custodian. The public body has a reasonable amount of time to respond to the request.

As defined by ORS 192.005(5) "Public record" means any information that:

A.  Is prepared, owned, used or retained by a state agency or political subdivision;

B.  Relates to an activity, transaction or function of a state agency or political subdivision; and 

C.   Is necessary to satisfy the fiscal, legal, administrative or historical policies, requirements or needs of the state agency or political subdivision.

A writing is defined as: handwriting, typewriting, printing, photographing, and every means of recording, including letters, words, pictures, sounds, or symbols or combination thereof, and all papers, maps, files, facsimiles or electronic recordings.

Writing also includes information stored on computer tape, microfiche, photographs, films, tape, or videotape, and virtually any other method of recording information. Public records may be in machine readable or electronic form.