Created in 2007, the Public Records Exemptions Accountability Committee reviews exemptions to the state transparency law and recommends changes or repeals to exemptions that may be no longer necessary.
But at Tuesday’s meeting on the Capitol campus, Sunshine Committee chair Linda Krese said the pace of new exemptions that have cropped up since the Public Records Act passed in a 1972 voter-approved initiative is proving hard to keep up with. That transparency law requires the disclosure of taxpayer-funded documents such as emails, memos and texts to help the people of Washington evaluate how public servants are conducting their business.
In an email to Gov. Jay Inslee’s office last month, Krese
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