BILL REQ. #: H-3088.1
State of Washington | 63rd Legislature | 2014 Regular Session |
Read first time 01/16/14. Referred to Committee on Government Operations & Elections.
AN ACT Relating to exempting agency employee driver's license numbers, identicard numbers, and identification numbers from public inspection and copying; and reenacting and amending RCW 42.56.250.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1 RCW 42.56.250 and 2010 c 257 s 1 and 2010 c 128 s 9 are
each reenacted and amended to read as follows:
The following employment and licensing information is exempt from
public inspection and copying under this chapter:
(1) Test questions, scoring keys, and other examination data used
to administer a license, employment, or academic examination;
(2) All applications for public employment, including the names of
applicants, resumes, and other related materials submitted with respect
to an applicant;
(3) The residential addresses, residential telephone numbers,
personal wireless telephone numbers, personal electronic mail
addresses, social security numbers, driver's license numbers,
identicard numbers, employee identification numbers, and emergency
contact information of employees or volunteers of a public agency, and
the names, dates of birth, residential addresses, residential telephone
numbers, personal wireless telephone numbers, personal electronic mail
addresses, social security numbers, and emergency contact information
of dependents of employees or volunteers of a public agency that are
held by any public agency in personnel records, public employment
related records, or volunteer rosters, or are included in any mailing
list of employees or volunteers of any public agency. For purposes of
this subsection, "employees" includes independent provider home care
workers as defined in RCW 74.39A.240;
(4) Information that identifies a person who, while an agency
employee: (a) Seeks advice, under an informal process established by
the employing agency, in order to ascertain his or her rights in
connection with a possible unfair practice under chapter 49.60 RCW
against the person; and (b) requests his or her identity or any
identifying information not be disclosed;
(5) Investigative records compiled by an employing agency
conducting an active and ongoing investigation of a possible unfair
practice under chapter 49.60 RCW or of a possible violation of other
federal, state, or local laws prohibiting discrimination in employment;
(6) Criminal history records checks for board staff finalist
candidates conducted pursuant to RCW 43.33A.025;
(7) Except as provided in RCW 47.64.220, salary and benefit
information for maritime employees collected from private employers
under RCW 47.64.220(1) and described in RCW 47.64.220(2); and
(8) Photographs and month and year of birth in the personnel files
of employees and workers of criminal justice agencies as defined in RCW
10.97.030. The news media, as defined in RCW 5.68.010(5), shall have
access to the photographs and full date of birth. For the purposes of
this subsection, news media does not include any person or organization
of persons in the custody of a criminal justice agency as defined in
RCW 10.97.030.