Legal Opinion
Forbes v. City of Gold Bar
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided November 13, 2012No. 66630-4-IPublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGrosse, J.
¶1 The Public Records Act (PRA), chapter 42.56 RCW, requires a public agency to promptly respond to a request for public records within five business days by providing the records, denying the request, or providing a reasonable time frame within which to respond to the request. The act recognizes that there are situations where an agency needs additional time to respond to a request. This was the situation here. The records requests encompassed records that were stored on the personal computers of city officials, necessitating the hiring of an outside consultant to retrieve records from…
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