In accordance with the requirements of
RCW
42.56.100 that agencies prevent unreasonable
invasions of privacy, protect public records from damage or disorganization,
and prevent excessive interference with essential functions of the agency,
public records are only obtainable by members of the public when those members
of the public comply with the following procedures:
(1) Any person wishing to request access to
public records of Lake Washington Institute of Technology, or seeking
assistance in making such a request should contact the public records officer
of the
college at:
Public Records Officer
Attn.: Administrative Services
Lake Washington Institute of Technology
11605 132nd Avenue N.E.
Kirkland, WA 98034
425-739-8201
publicrecords@lwtech.edu
(2) A public records request must be for
identifiable records. A request for all or substantially all records prepared,
owned, used, or retained by the college is not a valid request for identifiable
records, provided that a request for all records regarding a particular topic
or containing a particular keyword or name shall not be considered a request
for all of the college's records.
(3) A request should be made in
writing on
the Public Records Request form, or by letter, fax, or email addressed to the
public records officer. The request should include the following information:
(a) The name of the person requesting the
record;
(b) Address of the
requestor;
(c) Other contact
information, including telephone number and any email address;
(d) The date and time of day of the
request;
(e) Identification of the
public records adequate for the public records officer or designee to locate
the records;
(f) If the matter
requested is referenced within the current index maintained by the public
records officer, a reference to the requested records as it is described in
such current index;
(g) If the
requested matter is not identifiable by reference to the current index, an
appropriate description of the record requested.
(4) In all cases in which a member of the
public is making a request, it shall be the obligation of the public records
officer, or person to whom the request is made, to assist the member of the
public in identifying the public records requested.
(5) The college may deny a bot request that
is one of multiple requests from the requestor to the college within a
twenty-four-hour period, if the college establishes that responding to the
multiple requests would cause excessive interference with other essential
functions of the college. For these purposes, "bot request" means a request for
public records that the college reasonably believes was automatically generated
by a computer program or script.
