Protecting information concerning agency employees who have filed a claim of harassment or stalking.
Summary
Prohibits from disclosure in response to a public records request certain records concerning state agency employees who have made a claim of workplace sexual harassment or stalking, or are named as the victim in the claim, if the requestor is the person alleged in the claim to have harassed or stalked the victim and the agency issued discipline to the requestor as a result of the claim after an investigation was conducted .
Requires a state agency to notify a state agency employee who has made a claim of workplace sexual harassment or stalking, or is named as the victim in the claim, upon a public records request by specified people for certain records concerning that agency employee, and authorizes that employee to enjoin, by court order, the disclosure of records .
Subjects a person to civil liability who requests and obtains a record concerning a state agency employee who has made a claim of workplace sexual harassment or stalking, or is named as a victim in the claim, and uses it, or provides it to someone who uses it, to harass, stalk, threaten, or intimidate that agency employee.
Requires the Attorney General to create model policies by January 1, 2020, for the implementation of this act.
From the Engrossed Substitute House Bill Report (ESHB 1692), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗