John Doe v. Benton County Prosecuting Attorney

¶1 This court accepted review of petitioner John Doe’s challenge to a trial court decision refusing to accept redacted filings in his petition for relief from registration as a sexual offender. Believing that Doe has identified a legally sufficient basis for relief, we remand for the trial court to conduct the remainder of the analysis required before sealing or redacting materials within a court record.

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¶2 This action is a spin-off of a case pending in the Washington Supreme Court, John Doe A v. Washington State Patrol, No. 90413-8 (argued September 17, 2015). In that action, several…