Because it requested records for a period about 12 times as long. The other request covered less than a year.

Do you have a copy of that request? I’d love to read it because you’re making a big statement about a publication’s relationship with truth.

The publication isn’t being dishonest - they openly published (in a post linked from the source article https://doublesidedmedia.com/2026/09/30/editorial-the-eugene...) the text of their two requests including the date ranges. They just don’t seem to understand the complexities of doing a detailed record search with broad criteria.

And the same search would find them easily regardless of period.

Perhaps you're misunderstanding the story here? The search did find them easily. The problem, the police claim, is that the search produced 2,689,000 records. Before being published, each record has to be reviewed, as it might have sensitive information about people other than Mr. Peckels that should not be released. (They asked for all "communications, correspondence, and logs", to be clear, so many of these records are going to be random freetext emails rather than structured reports which might be more easily analyzed.)