About this time last year, the Portland Police Bureau and Mayor Sam Adams got some heat for the bureau's

on its involvement with the Joint Terrorism Task Force. The report was delayed, watchdog groups wanted a preview of the content and when it finally came, the groups said it was light on details.

It's looking like some of that history may very well repeat itself this year.

In 2011, the City Council voted to renew police involvement in the FBI-led task force on a restricted basis. But a key requirement of that decision was that the police chief present the commissioners with a report on the subject every January.

January 2013 has come and gone and so far no report has been presented to the City Council.

We called the Portland Police Bureau Tuesday to check on the status of the report, as of Thursday morning they didn't have an answer for us. Dana Haynes, the spokesman for Mayor Charlie Hales, however, said he expects the mayor will see a copy of the report first thing next week.

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"The vast amount of things that came with the transition to the new mayor's office – including the transition of all bureaus – delayed the mayor and the chief from meeting on this in January," Haynes wrote in an e-mail.

That struck Dan Handelman of

as a little odd. Handelman said he e-mailed the mayor's office in mid-January to set up a meeting and check on the status of the report. He heard back about a meeting time but not about the report itself.

"We're hoping for a more thorough report this year," Handelman said. Though the delay and the possibility that "the community is not going to get to see it ahead of time … that's a great concern.

"The problem with the entire relationship is the secrecy."

The second report is particularly timely given the recent guilty verdict of

. Mohamud’s arrest for attempting to detonate a bomb during Portland’s 2010 tree-lighting ceremony led to calls for the Police Bureau to rejoin the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

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