EVERETT — The Snohomish County sheriff’s office has stopped trying to fill a public records request from a man who asked for every record going back to 1776 — even though that was 113 years before Washington became a state.
The county offered the man an initial installment and charged $1.50 for the cost of the DVD, said Sara Di Vittorio, the deputy prosecutor who advises departments on record requests.
When he refused to pay, the county considered his request abandoned, The Daily Herald reported Tuesday.
The man, who uses the online identities “Anonymous,” ”Alex Jones Teleprompter Technician,” and “Publius Publicus,” filed the records request in November. He demanded the sheriff’s office provide him copies “in whatever form available, of each and every document in your agency’s possession of any and every kind whatsoever without exception or limitation except as provided by narrow exception of law.”