2005 Washington Revised Code RCW 26.44.031: Unfounded referrals — Report retention.
To protect the privacy in reporting and the maintenance of reports of nonaccidental injury, neglect, death, sexual abuse, and cruelty to children by their parents, and to safeguard against arbitrary, malicious, or erroneous information or actions, the department shall not maintain information related to unfounded referrals in files or reports of child abuse or neglect for longer than six years except as provided in this section.
At the end of six years from receipt of the unfounded report, the information shall be purged unless an additional report has been received in the intervening period.
[1997 c 282 § 1.]
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