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PublicRecordsActfor Washington Cities,Counties, and SpecialPurpose DistrictsLast Updated: March 2019 Public Records ActCopyright 2019 by MRSC. All rights reserved. Except as permit-ted under the Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means or stored in a database or retrieval system without the prior written permission of the publisher; however, governmental entities in the state of Washington are granted permission to reproduce and dis-tribute this publication for official Fourth Avenue, Suite 800 Seattle, WA 98121-1280(206) 625-1300(800) HistoryMarch 2019 Exemptions and Prohibitions: Updated list of common prohibitions and exemptions relevant to local governments outside the PRA Appendix A: Added PRA related online resources Appendix C: Updated lists of state and federal exemptions and prohibition statutes not listed in the PRAF orewordBecause the legislature routinely updates the Public Records Act statutes, and because the courts issue many decisions each year interpreting the statutes, MRSC has chosen to update this publica-tion as needed.

public disclosure statutes have been frequently revised over the past three decades. The latest revision of the disclosure statutes are found in chapter 42.56 RCW, and are referred to as the Public Re-cords Act.1 Although the public records disclosure statutes do not apply to judicial records (case files),2 the legislature has specifically

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