A recent federal court verdict punishes the city of Roseburg for complying with Oregon’s public records law, dealing another blow to a fading sunshine law. You can’t blame the ex-police sergeant, Gregrey Fetsch, who won a $750,000 judgment Feb. 28 in Oregon District Court in Eugene. He may have gotten a raw deal from the police department. Nor is this a complaint against the jurors, who were asked to take sides in a dispute between Fetsch and the city. State law and the principle of open government weren’t factors. Still, the decision was disheartening. The city will be penalized, unless …