JOHANSON, C.J.
¶ 1 We are asked to decide whether information subject to a CR 26(c) protective order is exempt from disclosure under the "controversy exemption" of the Public Records Act (PRA), ch. 42.56 RCW. We hold that records subject to a CR 26(c) protective order in an ongoing civil action, on grounds that they are unduly burdensome for the agency to produce, are nonetheless "available" under the civil rules of pretrial discovery and, thus, are not exempt...
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