Local officials continue to seek balance in records requests

Local city officials hoping for legislative relief from large public records requests are going to have to keep on hoping — at least for another year.

House Bill 2576 would have made a number of adjustments to the state’s Open Public Records Act, but was assigned to that chamber’s Rule’s Committee’s “X” file on Feb. 26 and will receive no more consideration the rest of the current session. Washington Newspaper Publishers Association’s Olympia bureau coordinating editor Frank Garrard said the file removes bills clearing each chamber’s rules committee for floor consideration from any further act...