Chapter §8.2 Specific Privacy Exemptions

• Jurisdiction: Washington

§8.2 SPECIFIC PRIVACY EXEMPTIONS

Most reported decisions addressing privacy in the context of the PRA involve one of the three PRA exemptions that apply only to the extent they implicate a subject's privacy rights. Those exemptions are as follows:

(1)	RCW 42.56.230(3) exempts "[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; ...."
(2)	RCW 42.56.230(4) exempts "[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: (a) Be prohibited to such persons by RCW 84.08.210, 82.32.330, 84.40.020 or 84.40.340, or any ordinance authorized under RCW 35.102.145; or (b) violate the taxpayer's right to privacy or result in unfair competitive disadvantage to the taxpayer; ...."
(3)	RCW 42.56.240(1) exempts "[s]pecific intelligence information and specific investigative records compiled by investigative, law enforcement, and penology agencies, and state agencies vested

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