Except as provided in this section, mediation agreements are not confidential if a public body is a party to the mediation or if the mediation is one in which a state agency is mediating a dispute as to which the state agency has regulatory authority.
If a public body is a party to a mediation agreement arising out of a workplace interpersonal dispute:
(a)
The agreement is confidential if the public body is not a state agency, unless the public body adopts a policy that provides otherwise;
(b)
The agreement is confidential if the public body is a state agency only to the extent that the state agency has adopted a rule under ORS 36.224 (State agencies) that so provides; and
(c)
Any term of an agreement that requires an expenditure of public funds, other than expenditures of $1,000 or less for employee training, employee counseling or purchases of equipment that remain the property of the public body, may not be made confidential by a rule or policy of a public body. [1997 c.670 §5; 2005 c.352 §2]