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Wash. Rev. Code § 42.56.020 (2026)

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This chapter may be known and cited as the public records act.
[ 2005 c 274 s 102.]
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Cited in 13 cases, 2007–2017 · leading case: Soter v. Cowles Publ'g Co., 162 Wash. 2d 716 (Wash. 2007).
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Soter v. Cowles Publ'g Co., 162 Wash. 2d 716 (Wash. 2007). “RCW 42.56.020. It requires that “[e]ach agency, in accordance with published rules, shall make available for public inspection and copying all public records, unless the record falls within the specific exemptions of .”
Soter v. Cowles Pub. Co., 174 P.3d 60 (Wash. 2007). “RCW 42.56.020. It requires that "[e]ach agency, in accordance with published rules, shall make available for public inspection and copying all public records, unless the record falls within the specific exemptions of .”
Yousoufian v. Off. of Ron Sims, 229 P.3d 735 (Wash. 2010). “MADSEN, C.J., MARY E. FAIRHURST, J. and KAREN G.”
Yousoufian v. Off. of Sims, 168 Wash. 2d 444 (Wash. 2010). “Johnson, Chambers, and J.M. Johnson, JJ., and Morgan, J. Pro Tem.”
Bellevue John Does 1-11 v. Bellevue Sch. Dist. No. 405, 164 Wash. 2d 199 (Wash. 2008). “” RCW 42.56.020. *228 I cite the statutes as they have been recodified and refer to the act by its present title: the PRA.”
Bellevue John Does 1-11 v. Bellevue Sch. Dist., 189 P.3d 139 (Wash. 2008). “The majority refers to the act as it was previously known (the public disclosure act) because the public records request in this case occurred before recodification of the act.”
Nw. Gas Ass'n v. Washington Utils. & Transp. Comm'n, 141 Wash. App. 98 (Wash. Ct. App. 2007). “RCW 42.56.020. Requiring liberal construction of the act, RCW 42.”
Nw. Gas Ass'n v. Washington Utils. & Transp. Com'n, 168 P.3d 443 (Wash. Ct. App. 2007). “" RCW 42.56.020. Requiring liberal construction of the Act, RCW 42.”
Harley H. Hoppe & Assocs., Inc. v. King Cnty., 255 P.3d 819 (Wash. Ct. App. 2011). “RCW 42.56.020. 4 Indeed, three of the exemption statutes cross-referenced in RCW 42.”
Yousoufian v. Off. of Ron Sims, 165 Wash. 2d 439 (Wash. 2009). “” RCW 42.56.020. At oral argument counsel for King County invited this court to calculate the penalty should this court decide the trial court abused its discretion.”
Rebecca A. Rufin, Appellant, v. the City of Seattle, Respondent, 398 P.3d 1237 (Wash. Ct. App. 2017). “RCW 42.56.020. To assure that the public interest will be fully protected, the PRA is a strongly worded mandate for broad disclosure of public records and should be liberally construed to promote full access to public records, and its exemptions are to be narrowly construed.”
Yousoufian v. Off. of Sims, 200 P.3d 232 (Wash. 2009). “NOTES [1] The legislature recodified the provisions in chapter 42.17 RCW pertaining to public records at chapter 42.”
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