Washington Administrative Code › Title 467 - Traffic Safety Commission › Chapter 467-02 - Public access to information and records › Section 467-02-030 - Exempted records

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
In accordance with RCW   42.56.210, the following personal and
						other records shall be exempt from public inspection and copying:
(1) Personal information in any files
					maintained for students in public schools, patients or clients of public
					institutions or public health agencies, welfare recipients, prisoners,
					probations or parolees.
(2)
					Personal information in files maintained for employees, appointees or elected
					officials of any public agency to the extent that disclosure would violate
					their right to privacy.
(3)
					Information required of any taxpayer in connection with the assessment or
					collection of any tax if the disclosure of the information to other persons
					would violate the tax-payer's right to privacy or would result in unfair
					competitive disadvantage to such taxpayer.
(4) Specific intelligence information and
					specific investigative records compiled by investigative, law enforcement, and
					penology agencies, and state agencies vested with the responsibility to
					discipline members of any profession, the nondisclosure of which is essential
					to effective law enforcement or for the protection of any person's right to
					privacy.
(5) Information revealing
					the identity of persons who file complaints with investigative, law
					enforcement, or penology agencies, except as the complainant may
					authorize.
(6) Test questions,
					scoring keys, and other examination data used to administer a license,
					employment or academic examination.
(7) Valuable formulae, designs, drawings
					computer source code or object code and research data obtained by any agency
					within five years of the request for disclosure when disclosure would produce
					private gain and public loss (RCW   42.56.270(1)).
(8) Preliminary drafts, notes,
					recommendations and intra-agency memorandums in which opinions are expressed or
					policies formulated or recommended except that a specific record shall not be
					exempt when publicly cited by an agency in connection with any agency
					action.
(9) Records which are
					relevant to a controversy to which an agency is a party but which records would
					not be available to another party under the rules of pretrial discovery for
					causes pending in the superior courts.
(10) All applications for public employment,
					including the names of applicants, resumes, and other related materials
					submitted with respect to an applicant.
(11) The residential addresses and
					residential telephone numbers of the employees or volunteers of a public agency
					which are held by the agency in personnel records, employment or volunteer
					rosters, or mailing lists of employees or volunteers.
(12) Records, maps, or other information
					identifying the location of archaeological sites in order to avoid the looting
					or depredation of such sites.
(13)
					Any library record, the primary purpose of which is to maintain control of
					library materials, or to gain access to information, which discloses or could
					be used to disclose the identity of a library user.
(14) Personal or financial information
					supplied by or on behalf of a person, firm, or corporation for the purpose of
					qualifying to submit a bid or proposal for as required by RCW   42.56.230 and
					defined by RCW   9.35.005.
(15) The
					exemptions of this section shall be inapplicable to the extent that
					information, the disclosure of which would violate personal privacy or vital
					governmental interests, can be deleted from the specific records sought. No
					exemption shall be construed to permit the nondisclosure of statistical
					information not descriptive of any readily identifiable person or
					persons.
Statutory Authority: RCW  43.59.040. 91-23-101, §
										467-02-030, filed 11/20/91, effective 12/21/91; Order 1, §
										467-02-030, filed 4/11/77.