2012 Revised Code of Washington
Title 43 - STATE GOVERNMENT — EXECUTIVE
43.06A Office of the family and children's ombudsman.
43.06A.060 Admissibility of evidence -- Testimony regarding official duties.
RCW 43.06A.060 Admissibility of evidence — Testimony regarding official duties.
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Neither the ombudsman nor the ombudsman's staff may be compelled, in any judicial or administrative proceeding, to testify or to produce evidence regarding the exercise of the official duties of the ombudsman or of the ombudsman's staff. All related memoranda, work product, notes, and case files of the ombudsman's office are confidential, are not subject to discovery, judicial or administrative subpoena, or other method of legal compulsion, and are not admissible in evidence in a judicial or administrative proceeding. This section shall not apply to the *legislative oversight committee.
[1998 c 288 § 1.]
Notes:
| *Reviser's note: "Legislative oversight committee" apparently refers to the "legislative children's oversight committee" created in RCW 44.04.220. Severability -- Effective date -- 1998 c 288: See notes following RCW 43.06A.020.
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