"Snohomish County leaders want help from state lawmakers to cut down
the time and expense they spend responding to requests for public
records, a concern they share with government colleagues in Washington
and beyond.
The county receives thousands of requests each year from
individuals, neighborhood groups, attorneys and reporters. Often, county
staff will compile stacks of records that sit, gathering dust, without
anybody coming to pick them up.
County Council responses to public records fill four metal file drawers. There's also a cart that holds the pending requests.
"I would frankly not be surprised to find out that there is in
excess of $1 million per year being spent by this county in staff time,"
County Council Chairman Dave Gossett said. "The real challenge here is
to comply with the legitimate need of citizens to know what their
government is doing and to ask questions, with the tremendous amount of
work that some of these very broad and repetitive requests create."
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