In early 2025, I served as an unpaid volunteer at Honeyman State Park.
What began as a routine volunteer assignment quickly escalated into two months of systematic psychological pressure, coercive tactics, and institutional retaliation, followed by dismissal and expulsion from all Oregon State Parks.
This archive is not a story about me.
It is a story about them — the choices they made when given evidence of abuse, when given the opportunity to stop, when given time to self-correct. And every mechanism of accountability — instead used to shield themselves.
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Five days before Christmas, 2025.
My full testimony — in one take, no edits, enduring the sniffles — while walking a forest trail.
Why I built this archive: to correct an epistemic violation.
It is not designed to win attention.
It is designed to outlast denial.
THIS ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS AN ONGOING CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION
I entered the state parks system anticipating alignment —
to protect the commons,
to hold space with integrity,
to support the land,
and to give freely without ownership.
That was the offer.
What I found instead was systematic abuse by those entrusted to supervise me.
When I documented that abuse and spoke publicly about my experience, Oregon State Parks took my right to participate in government away.
What they took:
Volunteer service is not charity labor.
It is civic participation.
It is how citizens engage directly with the function of government.
I chose to serve Oregon State Parks.
I maintained trails. I cleaned facilities. I engaged with visitors.
I participated in government — not as observer, not as taxpayer funding distant bureaucracy, but as citizen directly stewarding public land.
On March 26, 2025, Allison Watson permanently expelled me from all Oregon State Parks volunteer programs.
She put the reason in writing:
"the public comments made about staff regarding your volunteer service, were not in line with expectations."
That is retaliation for protected speech.
That is denial of civic participation as punishment for exercising constitutional rights.
That violation continues right now. Today.
Every single day they refuse to restore what they took.
The humans who did this:
- Kati Baker, Park Supervisor, orchestrated the abuse.
- Ryan Warren, Park Manager, executed the abuse through sustained hostility.
- Logan Bliss, Volunteer Services Lead, weaponized personal disclosures.
- Allison Watson, Engagement Programs Manager, retaliated in writing for protected speech.
- Lisa Sumption, Director, shielded the abusers.
- The agency violated public records law for 90+ days.
- Governor Kotek's office — silence.
Every person had the power to stop this.
Every person chose not to.
No investigations occurred.
No accountability was established.
The constitutional violation continues.
This is what institutional collapse looks like:
This archive exists because institutional accountability failed at every level.
When government denies citizens the right to participate because they spoke about abuse —
democracy stops being public.
When constitutional violations go uncorrected through every layer of escalation —
rights become theoretical.
When silence becomes the institutional response to documented harm —
the system protects power, not people.
That is what this archive documents.
That is what continues right now.
That will not be absolved by silence, or by time.
—
Robert Samuel White
Former Oregon State Parks Volunteer
THIS IS THE MAP. THIS IS THE PATTERN. THIS IS THE MIRROR.
Oregon state government can never again abuse a volunteer this way without documented precedent — or what they would euphemistically call liability.
When the Governor's office was directly notified and chose silence, this stopped being one agency's failure and became shared across the state structure.
It became pattern evidence for every volunteer program across Oregon's executive branch.
Their institutional silence does not erase the pattern. It confirms it.
This archive is not for revenge.
It is for those who have been told they imagined it.
It is for those about to walk into something similar.
It is for the future, when denial no longer holds.
It does not ask for apology.
It does not ask for repair.