OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state House has approved a measure that exempts some information on criminal justice employees from the state’s public records law.
The House unanimously passed the measure late Saturday night and it now heads to the Senate for further consideration. It exempts the photographs and month and year of birth information in personnel files of criminal justice employees from disclosure. Under an amendment that passed, the news media would have still have access to the information.
Supporters say they want to ensure that criminals or inmates do not use the information to target officers or other criminal justice employees.
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The criminal justice public records measure is House Bill 1317.
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