On July 3, 2025, I filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Oregon Senator James Manning, Oregon Representative Shelly Boshart Davis, her Chief of Staff Renee Perry, Assistant Oregon Attorney General Rebecca Maile, and others for depriving military families, a federally protected class, of our constitutional rights through systemic abuse of process. Manning and Maile have since been dismissed as defendants, and multiple John and Jane Does remain unnamed.

Oregon state legislators admitted in writing that they killed military family civil rights legislation because I filmed staff in a public restaurant. Another Senator’s email to James Manning displays his motive: 'I know I said yes to this request, but I won’t move forward with the bill because it would be rewarding behavior I don’t like.' This is First Amendment retaliation, documented in black and white.