PRISON LEGAL NEWS, INC., Petitioner,
v.
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Respondent.
Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued October 21, 2004.
Decided July 14, 2005.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
William John Crittenden, Patrick Denis Brown, Seattle, for Amicus Curiae Allied Daily Newspapers of Washington Inc., Washington Coalition for Open Government, and Washington Newspaper Publishers Association.
Robert Bertelson Mitchell, Julie Anne Halter, Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, Seattle, for Amicus Curiae American Civil Liberties Union.
Greg Overstreet, Attorney General's Office, Olympia, for Amicus Curiae Coalition for Open Government.
Signe H. Brunstad, Seattle, for Amicus Curiae Coalition for Open Government.
Patricia J. Arthur, Columbia Legal Services, Seattle, for Amicus Curiae Angelo Lambrou and Pro-Family Advocates of Washington.
David C. Fathi, ACLU National Prison Project, Washington DC, Amicus Curiae for Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.
SANDERS, J.
The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government, and consequently [one of] those which ought to shape its administration.—Thomas Jefferson1
¶ 1 We here consider whether identifying information in public records related to medical misconduct investigations in Washington prisons and patient information...
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