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                    SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 6359

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Judiciary (originally sponsored by Senators Costa, McCaslin, Kline, Long, Heavey, Brown, Prentice, Fairley, McAuliffe, Franklin, Kohl‑Welles, Sheahan, Haugen, Spanel, Rasmussen and Gardner)

Read first time 02/04/2000.

Limiting personal information entered into the judicial information system for purposes of issuing protection orders.

    AN ACT Relating to personal information entered into the judicial information system for purposes of issuing protection orders; and amending RCW 26.50.160.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

    Sec. 1.  RCW 26.50.160 and 1995 c 246 s 18 are each amended to read as follows:

(1) To prevent the issuance of competing protection orders in different courts and to give courts needed information for issuance of orders, the judicial information system shall be available in each district, municipal, and superior court by July 1, 1997, and shall include a data base containing the following information:

    (((1))) (a) The names of the parties and the cause number for every order of protection issued under this title, every criminal no-contact order issued under chapter 10.99 RCW, every antiharassment order issued under chapter 10.14 RCW, every dissolution action under chapter 26.09 RCW, every third-party custody action under chapter 26.10 RCW, and every parentage action under chapter 26.10 RCW;

    (((2))) (b) A criminal history of the parties; ((and

    (3) Other relevant information necessary to assist courts in issuing orders under this chapter as determined by the judicial information system committee)) (c) The date of birth of the parties; and

(d) The contact addresses of the parties.  When collecting this information, each party must be given notice that the contact address becomes a public record and that the party may use an address other than the party's personal residence.  Addresses assigned through the state's address confidentiality program under chapter 40.24 RCW may be used for this purpose.

(2) In no case shall any other personally identifying information be entered into the data base.

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