Planned Parenthood v. Bloedow

¶1 By statute, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) collects, analyzes, and pub*610lishes health care data from state agencies and private health care providers. But the statute expressly provides that “data in any form where the patient or provider of health care can be identified” shall not be subject to disclosure under the Public Records Act (PRA), chapter 42.56 RCW.1 Jonathan Bloedow submitted seven separate PRA requests to DOH to obtain the induced termination of pregnancy data reports that health care providers Planned Parenthood Everett, Feminist Women’s Health Center Renton,…