Authority and purpose.
These rules are adopted pursuant to RCW
40.24.030 and
40.24.090. The purpose of this chapter is to provide the administrative procedures necessary to implement chapter
40.24 RCW; to provide a procedure for state and local agencies to respond to requests for public records without disclosing the location of a program participant; to provide a procedure to facilitate interagency cooperation in providing address confidentiality for a program participant; to establish uniform statewide procedures for maintaining the confidentiality of a program participant's name and address information in marriage and voting records; and to provide a procedure for state and local agencies to accept a program participant's use of a substitute mailing address.
[Statutory Authority: RCW
40.24.090. WSR 98-19-063, § 434-840-001, filed 9/16/98, effective 10/17/98. Statutory Authority: 1991 c 23. WSR 91-20-074, § 434-840-001, filed 9/26/91, effective 10/27/91.]