The Washington State Supreme Court has ruled that Seattle police officers who attended the January 2021 rally and protests at the U.S. Capitol can be identified in public court records Associated PressFeb. 13, 2025 Trump Wants States to Clean up Forests to Stop Wildfires. but His Administration...
Division I of the Washington State Court of Appeals misapplies Washington's Criminal Records Privacy Act (CRPA) in determining whether entire files of police investigative information should be available for public review. The plain text and legislative history of the CRPA indicate that the Washington...
Another dimension of practical experience is public records. I’ve been managing documents, indexing them, and making them publicly accessible for 13 years as the county auditor and it’s something I feel very passionate about. The Washington state archives were the second in the world to have ...
” To its credit, the Department of Energy (DOE) openly sought a modification of Clinton’s EO, which had banned the reclassification of documents once they became public. In late 1998 Congress authorized the DOE to scour the records of other agencies under stringent conditions, which included ...
Does Washington allow the public to access concealed carry registry information through public records law? No. The public does not have access to Washington’s concealed carry database. Duty to Inform Officer You’re Carrying? Do you have a duty to inform a police officer that you’re carryin...
Yet the media cover only a small fraction of public protests, raising the possibility of selection bias. We study this problem by comparing police records of demonstrations in Washington, D.C. in 1982 and 1991 with media coverage of the events in The New York Times, The Washington Post, ...
Police found a kilogram of fentanyl and drug-making equipment near the mat where the children slept and played. The case is only a tip of the iceberg of America's chronic drug epidemic. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security noted in the Homeland Threat Assessment 2024 report that drugs ...
Following Trump 1.0, the Biden administration also had a crack at the records, restoring much text that had been redacted from documents, but still leaving blanks in as many as 3,000 records. That gave Trump 2.0 one more chance to tantalize the public with the prospect of new revelations. ...
The public may believe that a defendant is guilty before the case even enters the court and pre-trial protective orders may force a person to move out of their homes, lose their jobs, and even forfeit visitation or custody of children. It is essential that any defense to a sex crime be...
“We have a lot of public, open source information to suggest that the event on this upcoming Saturday may be one of the largest we’ve ever had in the city,”Washington DC Police Chief Peter Newsham told local media, adding that much of the city center would be closed to traffic from...