File #: 2011-0277    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 6/13/2011 In control: Law, Justice, Health and Human Services Committee
On agenda: Final action: 6/27/2011
Enactment date: 7/7/2011 Enactment #: 17128
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to public records; providing guidance to public records officers regarding notice of agencies believed to have records responsive to public disclosure requests; revising the requirements for county agency reports about agency responses to public disclosure requests; and amending Ordinance 16679, Section 22, and K.C.C. 2.12.250 and Ordinance 16679, Section 27, and K.C.C. 2.12.300.
Sponsors: Bob Ferguson
Code sections: 2.12.300 - .
Attachments: 1. 17128.pdf, 2. 2011-0277 Revised staff report.doc, 3. 2011-0277 Public records ord - sr with attachments.pdf
Drafter
Clerk 06/16/2011
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to public records; providing guidance to public records officers regarding notice of agencies believed to have records responsive to public disclosure requests; revising the requirements for county agency reports about agency responses to public disclosure requests; and amending Ordinance 16679, Section 22, and K.C.C. 2.12.250 and Ordinance 16679, Section 27, and K.C.C. 2.12.300.
Body
PREAMBLE:
To promote openness in county government, public records officers responding to public disclosure requests should inform the requestor about other agencies believed to have additional responsive records.
To facilitate the county council's oversight of county agency responses to public disclosure requests, without unduly burdening the county's public records officers, the information to be included in the annual reports submitted by each agency to the county council is to be revised and supplemented as set forth in this ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 16679, Section 22, and K.C.C. 2.12.250 are each hereby amended as follows:
A. Each agency shall provide full access to public records that are not exempt from disclosure under applicable law, protect records from damage or disorganization, prevent excessive interference with other essential functions of the agency, provide fullest assistance to requestors and provide the most-timely possible action on public records requests.
B. The public records officer or designee shall process requests in the order allowing the most requests to be processed in the most efficient manner; in order to process requests as efficiently as possible, smaller requests may be processed before substantially larger requests that were received earlier.
C.1. Within five business days of receipt of the request, the public records officer shall do one or more of the following:
a. make the records available to the requestor for inspection ...

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