Kirkland found to be in violation of public records law
From Sunshine Review
Kirkland is a city in the state of Washington.
[edit] Kirkland found to be in violation of public records law
In preparing to file a public records request with the City of Kirkland, Evergreen Freedom Foundation journalist Scott St. Clair, himself a former resident of Kirkland, became suspicious when he read some of the questions on the city's public records access request form. The questions asked what was the requestor's interest in the public records, and what did the requestor plan to do with the information.
Qualifying the questions was language that purported to make answering them optional, but then went on to say that failure to answer them could change the way the city responded to the request.
Believing that it's none of the city's business why someone wants public records access or what they intend to do with the information (so long as it's not used for a commercial purpose), and upon advice of EFF's general counsel, St. Clair contacted the Washington State Attorney General's Public Records Ombudsman, Tim Ford, who confirmed his suspicions. Ford said he would write to the city directing it to bring its form into compliance with state law.[1]
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