Personal cellphone used to conduct employee's official duties

Text messages sent and received from the personal cell phone of a public employee in the employee’s official capacity are public records of the employer and subject to the PRA.

Nissen v Pierce Co, ___ Wn.2d ___ (No.  90875-3)(Aug. 27, 2015)

Glenda Nissen, a sheriff’s detective, sent a public records request for text messages sent from a personal cell phone by Mark Lindquist, the Pierce County Prosecutor. Held, if text messages are sent and received on the personal cell phone of a public employee but they are sent/ and eceived in the employee’s official capacity they are public records of the employer and subject to the PRA.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund website

http://vvmf.org/items/

Items Left at The Wall - The Virtual Collection

Since the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Wall) was dedicated in November 1982, more than 400,000 items have been left by visitors as remembrances and tributes. The National Park Service collects, catalogs, and preserves these objects as part of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial collection, with curatorial support from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund.

These are the curatorial records of a small portion of the items that have been left at The Wall over the years, but this is the largest collection of items left at The Wall ever made available to the public. Once the Education Center is funded and constructed, approximately 4,000-6,000 items will be on public display.

- See more at: http://vvmf.org/items/#sthash.e4Cz0QPq.dpuf

Kerri Kasem visit to Seattle

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Daughter-of-Casey-Kasem-breaks-her-silence-about-dads-death-320832971.html

We attended the 2015 National Legislative Summit in Seattle. It is the nation's largest gathering of legislators and legislative staff. I got to discuss the need for WA State to have a Police & Fire Commission to oversee agencies. 

http://www.ncsl.org/meetings-tra…/legislative-summit-15.aspx