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NISSEN v. PIERCE COUNTY

No. 90875-3.

357 P.3d 45 (2015)

Glenda NISSEN, an individual, Respondent, v. PIERCE COUNTY, a public agency, Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, a public agency, and Prosecutor Mark Lindquist, Petitioners.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided August 27, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Evans Lindquist , Pierce County Prosc. Office, Daniel Ray Hamilton , Attorney at Law, Tacoma, WA, Philip Albert Talmadge , Talmadge/Fitzpatrick, Stewart Andrew Estes , Keating, Bucklin & McCormack, Inc., P.S., Seattle, WA, for Petitioners.

Michele Lynn Earl-Hubbard , Allied Law Group LLC, Seattle, WA, for Respondent.

Anita Hunter , Washington Federation of State Employees, Olympia, WA, amicus counsel for Washington Federation of State Employees.

Martin S. Garfinkel , Schroeter Goldmark & Bender, Seattle, WA, amicus counsel for International Association of Fire Fighters.

Aimee Strand Iverson , WA Education Association, Federal Way, WA, amicus counsel for Washington Education Association.

Jeffrey Julius , Vick, Julius, McClure, P.S., Seattle, WA, amicus counsel for Washington Council of Police and Sheriffs.

Jeffrey Julius , Vick, Julius, McClure, P.S., Seattle, WA, amicus counsel for Washington State Patrol Troopers Association.

Scott R. Peters , Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney, Tacoma, WA, amicus counsel for Pierce County Prosecuting Attorneys Association.

Ramsey E. Ramerman , City of Everett, Everett, WA, amicus counsel for Washington State Association of Municipal Attorneys.

Peter B. Gonick , Callie Anne Castillo , WA State Attorney General Office, Olympia, WA, amicus counsel for Attorney General of Washington.

Judith A. Endejan , Garvey Schubert Barer , Seattle, WA, amicus counsel for Washington COAlition for Open Government.

William John Crittenden , Patrick Denis Brown , Attorney at Law, Seattle, WA, amicus counsel for League of Women Voters of Washington.

Nancy Lynn Talner , Douglas B. Klunder , Attorney at Law, Seattle, WA, amicus counsel for Aclu.

Pamela Beth Loginsky , Washington Assoc. of Prosecuting Atty., Olympia, WA, amicus counsel for Washington Association of Prosecuting Attorneys.

¶ 1 Five years ago we concluded that the Public Records Act (PRA), chapter 42.56 RCW, applied to a record stored on a personal computer, recognizing that "[i]f government employees could circumvent the PRA by using their home computers for government business, the PRA could be drastically undermined." O'Neill v. City of Shoreline...

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