RCW 40.14.010 – Definition and classification of public records “Public records shall include any paper, correspondence, completed form, bound record, book, photograph, film, sound, recording, map, drawing, machine-readable material…regardless of physical form or characteristics, and including such copies thereof, that have been made by or received by any agency of the state of Washington in connection with the transaction of public business”
Related to and used for the conduct of the business of government:
Anyone who creates, receives, or uses public records while working on behalf of a government agency, commission, board or committee is subject to all the rules surrounding public records as well
*Effective July 23, ESB 1594 amended Ch. 42.56 RCW making some exemptions for certain kinds of volunteers who do not serve in an administrative capacity, have not been appointed by the agency to a board, commission or internship or do not have a supervisory role or delegated authority
By law, the WSSB has five business days to respond to a request for records and to provide a date to the requestor for when the records will be provided.
In the last six years, the WSSB has received PRR’s from the following types of organizations:
….records of agency business when they are created or retained by agency or officials on home computers or devices, or in non-agency email accounts or files (location does not matter)
The state and local governments that responded to a statewide survey in 2016 reported spending more than $60 million to fulfill over 285,000 public records requests in the most recent year alone