Johnson v. STATE DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

¶1 Robert Earle Johnson appeals the superior court’s dismissal of his Public Records Act (PRA) 1 action against the State of Washington Department of Corrections (DOC). He argues that the superior court erred in ruling that the PRA’s one-year statute of limitations, RCW 42.56-.550(6), barred his action because the DOC did not engage in either of the statute’s two triggering acts. We do not address whether RCW 42.56.550(6) applies or whether, in the alternative, RCW 4.16.130’s general two-year “catchall” statute of limitations applies because, even under RCW 4.16.130’s more lenient two-year…