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Washington DOC Pays Again for Flaunting Open Records Law
Loaded on June 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2006, page 37
The Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) has agreed to pay $65,000 to a state employee who claimed prison officials rejected his attorney’s request for electronic records, instead insisting on providing 38,000 pages of expensive hard copies that would have cost $5,700. “[The] DOC could have easily avoided this $65,000 payment ...
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