Washington Supreme Court to agencies: Comply with open records act or pay more
From Sunshine Review
January 15, 2009
[edit] Washington Supreme Court to agencies: Comply with open records act or pay more
"The good news for open-government advocates is that a majority of the Washington Supreme Court ruled when public agencies violate the right of the public to documents they are entitled to, the penalties should be large enough to deter future transgressions.
Yet, the court's historic ambivalence toward open-government issues was apparent again in Thursday's ruling in the case that stretches back to a request for King County documents relating to the 1997 ballot measure that led to Qwest Field.
No fewer than five different opinions — a majority, two concurrences, a concurrence-in-part and a dissent — were filed in Yousoufian v. Office of Ron Sims, on its third trip to the Supreme Court."
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