Parmelee v. Clarke

¶1 Appellant Allan Parmelee, a Washington

State prison inmate, sued to penalize the Department of *751Corrections (Department or DOC) for not timely responding to his requests for public records. The law permits an agency to designate a person to whom a request for records should be directed. Because Parmelee chose not to submit his requests to the designated person, the trial court properly dismissed his suit.

¶2 The first request at issue in Parmelee’s suit is a letter he allegedly wrote to Leslie Swanson, a department staff member in the administrative segregation unit at the facility where he…