public records law

TACOMA  (AP) — Legal bills now total more than half a million dollars in a long-running court case over whether Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist must release text messages under Washington state's public records law. Lindquist has been involved in a long-running public records fight with a former sheriff's detective...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Top lawmakers in Washington largely exempt themselves from the state's public records law, and their offices did not release emails sent and received by their government accounts when requested. As part of a nation-wide project by The Associated Press, a week of emails and daily schedules of Gov. Jay...