King County - File #: 2009-0351

• File #: 2009-0351
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 6/1/2009
• In control: Committee of the Whole
• Final action: 10/12/2009
• Enactment date: 10/22/2009
• Enactment #: 16679
• Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to public records and records retention; amending Ordinance 10698, Section 3, and K.C.C. 2.12.005, Ordinance 695, Section 1, and K.C.C. 2.12.010, Ordinance 695, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.020, Ordinance 10698, Section 2, and K.C.C. 2.12.035, Ordinance 12485, Section 4, and K.C.C. 2.12.040, Ordinance 3606, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.060, Ordinance 134 (part) and K.C.C. 2.12.070, Ordinance 5962, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.080, Ordinance 1660, Sections 1-2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.120 and Ordinance 9168, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.170, adding new sections to K.C.C. chapter 2.12, recodifying K.C.C. 2.12.160 and repealing Ordinance 3606, Section 3, and K.C.C. 2.12.050, Ordinance 3606, Section 5, and K.C.C. 2.12.090, Ordinance 3606, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.110, Ordinance 12485, Section 3, and K.C.C. 2.12.115, Ordinance 14266, Section 12, and K.C.C. 2.12.190 and Ordinance 2165, Section 5, as amended, and ...
• Sponsors: Bob Ferguson, Reagan Dunn, Larry Phillips, Dow Constantine
• Indexes: Records and Elections
• Code sections: 2.12.005 - , 2.12.010 - , 2.12.020 - , 2.12.035 - , 2.12.040 - , 2.12.050 - , 2.12.060 - , 2.12.070 - , 2.12.080 - , 2.12.090 - , 2.12.110 - , 2.12.115 - , 2.12.120 - , 2.12.160 - , 2.12.170 - , 2.12.190 - , 2.12.200 -

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
10/12/2009	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Hearing Held
10/12/2009	2	Metropolitan King County Council	Passed	Pass
10/5/2009	2	Committee of the Whole	Recommended Do Pass Substitute	Pass
9/9/2009	1	Committee of the Whole	Deferred
7/15/2009	1	Committee of the Whole	Deferred
6/24/2009	1	Committee of the Whole	Deferred
6/1/2009	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Introduced and Referred

Drafter
Clerk 05/28/2009
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to public records and records retention; amending Ordinance 10698, Section 3, and K.C.C. 2.12.005, Ordinance 695, Section 1, and K.C.C. 2.12.010, Ordinance 695, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.020, Ordinance 10698, Section 2, and K.C.C. 2.12.035, Ordinance 12485, Section 4, and K.C.C. 2.12.040, Ordinance 3606, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.060, Ordinance 134 (part) and K.C.C. 2.12.070, Ordinance 5962, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.080, Ordinance 1660, Sections 1-2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.120 and Ordinance 9168, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.170, adding new sections to K.C.C. chapter 2.12, recodifying K.C.C. 2.12.160 and repealing Ordinance 3606, Section 3, and K.C.C. 2.12.050, Ordinance 3606, Section 5, and K.C.C. 2.12.090, Ordinance 3606, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.110, Ordinance 12485, Section 3, and K.C.C. 2.12.115, Ordinance 14266, Section 12, and K.C.C. 2.12.190 and Ordinance 2165, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.12.200.
Body
STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Initiative 276, passed by the voters in 1972, states in part:
"It is hereby declared by the sovereign people to be the public policy of the state of Washington: . . . (11) That mindful of the right of individuals to privacy and of the desirability of the efficient administration of government, full access to information concerning the conduct of government on every level must be assured as a fundamental and necessary precondition to the sound governance of a free society."
2. The policy in Initiative 276 was adopted by the Legislature in 1992:
"The people of this state do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies that serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may maintain control over the instruments tha...